Rule
1.9 Duties To Former Clients
(a) A lawyer who has
formerly represented a client in a matter shall not
thereafter represent another person in the same or a substantially
related matter in which that person's interests are materially adverse
to the interests of the former client unless the former client gives
informed consent,
confirmed in writing.
(b) A lawyer shall not knowingly represent a person in
the same or a substantially related matter in which a firm with which
the lawyer formerly was associated had previously represented a client
(1) whose interests are materially adverse to that person; and
(2) about whom the lawyer had acquired information protected by
Rule
1.6 and
Rule 1.9(c) that is material to the matter;
unless the former client gives
informed consent,
confirmed in writing.
(c) A lawyer who has formerly represented a client in
a matter or whose present or former firm has formerly represented a
client in a matter shall not thereafter:
(1) use information relating to the representation to the disadvantage of
the former client except as these Rules would permit or require with
respect to a client, or when the information has become generally known;
or
(2)
reveal information relating to the representation except as these Rules
would permit or require with respect to a client.
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