Conflicts of Interest: A Practical Roadmap (from Annual Construction Law and Public Contracts 2021

A pre-recorded streaming VIDEO replay of one session from the November 2021 webcast seminar, 42nd Annual Construction Law and Public Contracts.

Cosponsored with the Construction Law and Public Contracts Section of the Virginia State Bar

This program uses hypotheticals to explore basic conflicts-of-interest rules, including: the general prohibition on adversity to current clients; the definition of “client” for conflicts purposes (including corporations, associations, estates, and others); the definition of “adversity” for conflicts purposes (including business adversity, adverse financial impact, discovery of clients, and positional adversity); the complex rules governing joint representations; the more subtle standard governing adversity to former clients; determining the status of an attorney-client relationship; application of the “substantial relationship” standard; “material limitation” conflicts; lawyers’ ability to withdraw from a representation to cure a conflict (including the “hot potato” rule); consents that can cure conflicts (including the revocability of consents and prospective consents); disqualification motions based on conflicts of interest (including standards, process, and effects).