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Ethics Check: Negotiating For A Job With Opposing Counsel?

Law360, New York (October 15, 2015, 11:43 AM EDT) -- When you start planning to leave your firm for greener pastures, lots of ethics issues can crop up. One of the most acute issues is if you get an offer to join a firm that is on the opposite side of a matter you are already handling. That was the situation in a recent District of Wyoming bankruptcy case, In re US Bentonite Inc., and it led the court to order the firm representing a Chapter 11 debtor-in-possession to disgorge several months' worth of fees. The firm avoided disqualification, however, in part because the lawyer's new firm had screened him....

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