Collatt v. Collatt’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “In fact, [the conflicts rule] both “protects client confidences from intentional or inadvertent disclosure and promotes the virtue of loyalty.” Even if [the attorney’s] representation of [the mother] did not provide him with confidential information whose use would be likely to inflict damage on her in plaintiffs action for conversion and duress, thereby creating an “information specific” conflict, it clearly would conflict with her interests in the matter in which he earlier represented her, generating a “matter specific” conflict.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Griffith v. Taylor