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Negotiating for legal employment with the “other side” raises ethics issues

By Karen Rubin on October 1, 2015
Posted in Conflicts, Disqualification

Sinking dollarWhen you start planning to leave your firm for greener pastures, lots of ethics issues can crop up (bad pun). One of the most acute issues is if you get an offer to join a firm that is on the opposite side of a matter you are already handling. That was the situation in a…

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