Conflicts of interest and how to resolve them is one of the major problems facing the legal profession today. Conflicts of interest are by no means restricted to the legal profession, our whole life is full of them – in politics, in business, in science, and so on.

Professionals are particularly exposed to conflicts because one of the most essential elements in professionalism is trust and the conflicting questions faced by lawyers are perhaps greater in number and intensity than those faced by most other professionals.