In Re Complaint as to the Conduct of Hostetter

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• defining “actual injury” as the “actual harm to a client, the public, the legal system, or the profession”
• looking to the commentary to the model rule for its persuasive value when an Oregon rule is identical to the model rule
• cautioning against conflating “adversity” with “injury” for purposes of adversity requirement
• cautioning against conflating “adversity” with “injury” for purposes of adversity requirement
• although case matching in lawyer discipline cases is an “inexact science,” the court’s case law can “provide some guidance” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• so stating; focus is whether respective interests were “adverse from the outset,” not whether client injured later as result of a conflict

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).