State v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

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1. “(a) While lawyers are associated in a firm, none of them shall knowingly represent a client when any one of them practicing alone would be prohibited from doing so by rules 1.7, 1.8(c), 1.9, or 2.2. (b) When a lawyer becomes associated with a firm, the firm may not knowingly represent a person in the same or a substantially related matter in which that lawyer, or a firm with which the lawyer was associated, had previously represented a client whose interests are materially adverse to that person and about whom the lawyer had acquired confidences or secrets protected by rules 1.6 and 1.9(b) that are material to the matter. (c) When a lawyer has terminated an association with a firm, the firm is not prohibited from thereafter representing a person with interests materially adverse to those of a client represented by the formerly associated lawyer, unless: (1) The matter is the same or substantially related to that in which the formerly associated lawyer represented the client; and (2) Any lawyer remaining in the firm has acquired confidences or secrets protected by rules 1.6 and 1.9(b) that are material to the matter.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 108 Wash. 2d 324 - FIRST SMALL BUSINESS INV. CO. OF CA. v. Intercapital Corp. of Oregon