LEO: Conflict of Interest/Personal Injury  LE Op. 520

 

Conflict of Interest/Personal Injury.

 

May 16, 1983

 

It is not ethically improper for an attorney to represent a wife in a

personal injury case against her husband after the husband has been found

guilty in absentia by the attorney's law partner sitting as a substitute

judge in General District Court in a hearing regarding a traffic

violation.

 

Committee Opinion May 16, 1983

 

CROSS REFERENCES

 

See also LE Op. 1337.