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72-Representing Partnerships

Because a partnership is like other legal entities, a lawyer representing a partnership ordinarily does not represent the individual partners. Information the lawyer receives in representing the partnership ordinarily may not be withheld from individual partners. A separate attorney-client relationship with an individual partner may potentially result in a conflict. If asked to represent an individual partner, the lawyer should obtain the partnership's and individual's consent after full disclosure.

Copyright 2000, Thomas E. Spahn