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Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Cheryl Matthews said she had concerns about a potential conflict of interest by the couple using lawyers from the same firm, despite the Crumbley couple being charged as individuals instead of together. Prosecutor Karen McDonald previously argued either defen...
Conflicts of interest take all shapes and sizes, and can be caused by inadvisable decisions or pure oversight on the part of the law firm involved.Two recent examplesatverydifferent ends of the scale? Kattan Muchin Rosenman, a Chicago-based firm with over 600 lawyers in 14 offices across the...
Some steps have been taken to require disclosure of industry and other funding. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) has produced a standard Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest Form [4] which ICMJE member journals require authors to use. The World Association of Medical Ed...
Joe has accepted they are the same. Now he can win in court. Andrew is a little different. At first he spurns lawyers like Joe. Then has to lie prostrate in front of him. He’s combative when they talk. Philadelphia - I have a case ...
Inactive client relationships may create per se conflicts for criminal defense lawyers: a per se conflict of interest may arise because of a past client relationship, regardless of whether criminal defense attorneys have spoken with their former client in years, says the Illinois Supreme Court. ...
QUEBEC CITY-The Canadian Bar Association has amended its code of professional conduct, adopting 21 recommendations from a report that aims to guide lawyers as they increasingly run up against conflicts of interest. “Our hope is that ultimately there will be a consistent code of conduct that appli...
Second, the Claimants cannot fund the litigation out of their own resources and have to rely upon their lawyers being prepared to act on CFA terms. The inequality that flows from this is best illustrated by the £7 million that the Claimants have had to expend on the SOIs. It is a ...
the evidence advanced by the Claimants can be relied on in these appeals as demonstrating significant inequality of arms in access to information. Second, the Claimants cannot fund the litigation out of their own resources and have to rely upon their lawyers being prepared to act on CFA terms...
Also contributing to the delay were divisions between some of the lawyers and the more public relations-minded members of Willis' team, according to a source close to Willis. The lawyers have been reluctant to disclose any more information than they need to prevail in their legal arguments. T...