1.10 Imputation of Conflicts of Interest: General Rule
(a) While lawyers are associated in a firm,
none of them shall knowingly represent a client when any one of them
practicing alone would be prohibited from doing so
by Rule 1.7 or Rule1.9,
unless the prohibition is based on a personal interest of the prohibited
lawyer and does not present a significant risk of materially limiting
the representation of the client by the remaining lawyers in the firm.
(b) When a lawyer has terminated an association with a firm,
the firm is not prohibited from thereafter representing a person with
interests materially adverse to those of a client represented by the
formerly associated lawyer and not currently represented by the firm,
unless:
(1) the matter is the same or substantially related to that
in which the formerly associated lawyer represented the client; and
(2) any lawyer remaining in the firm has information
protected by Rule 1.6
and
Rule 1.9(c)
that is material to the matter.
(c) A disqualification prescribed by this rule may be
waived by the affected client under the conditions stated in
Rule 1.7.
(d) The disqualification of lawyers associated in a firm
with former or current government lawyers is governed by
Rule 1.11.