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In Time for Summer, the City Bar Association Jumps Into the ‘Pool’—The Legal Ethics of Multiple-Client Representations (New York Law Journal)
New York Law Journal, June 18, 2019
In Time for Summer, the City Bar Association Jumps Into the ‘Pool’—The Legal Ethics of Multiple-Client Representations
In “Formal Opinion 2019-4: Representing Multiple Individuals in the Context of a Governmental or Internal Investigation,” publish on May 16, 2019, the City Bar Association‘s Professional Ethics Committee squarely addresses these questions, providing both ethical and practical guidance for lawyers serving in the role of pool counsel. To the certain relief of practitioners who have taken on pool counsel representations, the Opinion answers in the affirmative—qualified by 15 pages of analysis—the following question presented: “May a lawyer concurrently represent multiple individuals in the same governmental investigation or corporate internal investigation?”
