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: Legal Ethics ForumCalifornia's Attorney General (and Governor-elect), Jerry Brown, sues an agency the AG represents (or, "the knotty problems of government lawyering")
Story here; complaint here. Jerry Brown, our current AG, former Governor, and future Governor, has undertaken a representation of the Insurance Commissioner against a state agency that the Attorney General represents.
Although it all sounds bizarre, the closer you look at government lawyering in state and municipal settings, the more often you find the lawyers in the middle of some intra-governmental fight with clients or quasi-clients on all sides. (I'm finalizing a syllabus for the Ethics of Government Lawyers, and if you have any suggestions, I'd welcome them.)
Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on November 19, 2010 (boomark / email).
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