Manley v. Butterfield

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that, “if the rule was otherwise, an ‘attorney could always convert a present client into a former client by choosing when to cease to represent the disfavored client’” (internal quotation marks omitted
• discussing extent of attorney client privilege specifically in regards to nature of legal services performed
• “The per se rule applies if an attorney simultaneously represents clients with differing interests even though the representation ceases prior to the filing of the disqualification motion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).