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Absent disclosure and consent, a lawyer cannot represent an insurer with regard to a claim where the insurer’s interests are inconsistent with those of a reinsurer on whose Board the lawyer sits.
The fact that a corporation's lawyer is related to its president and principal shareholder does not, standing alone, create a conflict of interest.
It is not improper for an attorney to act as general counsel to a corporation and serve as a board member of that corporation so long as there is full disclosure to the board any possible conflicts that might arise through his law practice or his friend's and the attorney refrains from entering into any non-legal business transactions with his corporate client.
A state's attorney's duty to represent the county clerk in the latter's official capacity does not prevent an assistant state's attorney who is president of a non-profit organization from urging the legislature adopt an amendment to statute even though the county clerk is opposed to the amendment.