Many lawyers are familiar with the ethics rules surrounding legal conflicts that can arise between adverse client relationships. What is sometimes less discussed are conflicts arising from a lawyer’s own personal relationships with opposing counsel.

Under Georgia Rule of Professional Conduct 1.7, conflicts may arise not only from the lawyer’s “duties to another client, a former client, or a third person,” but also from the lawyer’s “own interests”—at least where there is a significant risk that such interests will materially limit the representation.

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