Lawyer's Personal Interest
Discover how a lawyer’s personal, economic, or business interests can materially limit a client’s representation, the necessity of divorcing personal interests from lawyer-client relationships, and how a client may waive such conflicts.
Transcript
A conflict of interest can arise from a lawyer’s personal circumstances. In this lesson, we’ll look at what’s considered a personal-interest conflict and its impact.
I. Definition of a Personal-Interest Conflict
Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.7 provides the general rule for personal-interest conflicts. A lawyer’s personal conflict of interest disqualifies the lawyer from representing a client if there’s a significant risk that the lawyer’s personal...
