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| A law firm may represent a limited partner in an action against another partner seeking access to the books of the limited partnership although the lawyer had prepared the limited partnership documents with every partner's consent (because the firm had originally been hired to represent the limited partner's interests). | 6/10/1975 |
1099
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| A lawyer is a general partner in a partnership with three limited partners. The lawyer has filed an action against the three limited partners. The Bar declines to say whether it is proper for the lawyer to file a lawsuit against the limited partners while retaining the status of a general partner. | 7/11/1988 |
1458
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| A lawyer may represent a partnership and one of three partners in an action against the other two partners as long as the lawyer never met with the two partners or discussed any confidential matters with them, because the lawyer had no attorney-client relationship with the two partners (the partnership was a separate legal entity). | 5/11/1992 |
1037
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| A lawyer represents a limited partnership suing a city on a zoning matter. One of the five general partners later joins the law firm representing the city. The general partner has conveyed the partnership interest to a trust, and the city's law firm has erected an ethics screen around the former general partner. Although the general partner was involved in "legal discussions involving strategy, settlement and the conduct of the suit" before leaving the limited partnership, there was no ethical violation because there had been no attorney-client relationship between the partner and the limited partnership. | 3/8/1988 |
ABA-361
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| 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. | 7/12/1991 |