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| Even if both parties consent, a lawyer may not represent a plaintiff in an action against a hospital medical group when the lawyer's partner was retained by an insurance carrier to represent the medical group in an unrelated matter; the law firm must withdraw from both representations. [The Bar's conclusion that consent would not cure this conflict might be different under Rule 1.7(a)'s "reasonably believes" subjective standard rather than the old Code's "obvious" standard.] |