Government lawyers who may be furloughed due to the federal sequester generally are not conflicted out of counseling or advocating for their agencies on the matter, a Supreme Court committee said Monday in a formal opinion.

Like all civilian federal employees, agency lawyers face the possibility of one-day-a-week furloughs as a result of the series of automatic cost-saving budgetary cuts that took effect at the beginning of the year.

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