LEO: Conflicts of Interest/Domestic LE Op. 445

 

    Conflicts of Interest/Domestic Relations.

 

    January 18, 1982

 

    It is not improper for an attorney to represent a wife in a no-fault divorce when a member of that attorney's firm had previously represented the husband on a charge of felonious assault of a third party. The opinion of the Committee is limited to the facts of this particular inquiry. The Committee has relied heavily upon the representation that there will be no allegation of cruelty or physical abuse and upon the assumption that no information of a confidential nature was obtained by reason of the former representation. [See II: DR:5-105(A) & (D), DR:4-101(B).]

 

Committee Opinion January 18, 1982

 

LEO: Conflicts of Interest/Domestic, LE Op. 445 (1982)