NISSAN COMPARISON CHART OF FLORIDA AND ABA MODEL RULES (2002)
| FLORIDA RULE 1.10
(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 4-1.7, 4-1.8(c), 4-1.9, or 4-2.2.
(c) 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 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 rules 4- 1.6 and 4-1.9(b) that is material to that matter. |
ABA MODEL RULE 1.10 (2002) (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 Rules 1.7 or 1.9, 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. [ABA MODEL RULE 1.9 (1) whose interests are materially adverse to that
person; and
BACK TO MODEL RULE 1.10 (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 Rules 1.6 and 1.9(c) that is material to the matter. |