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| A lawyer may represent the husband in a domestic assault case although the lawyer's partner has been acquainted with the victim's family for many years and acquired confidences about the victim's family, because the family never sought or received legal advice from the partner and none of the discussions occurred in the lawyer's "professional capacity as a lawyer, to which an expectation of confidentiality might attach, as opposed to conversations between friends." The lawyer representing the husband may nevertheless withdraw as long as there would be no material prejudice to the husband and the lawyer receives court approval (if there was a pending case). |