In the United States, a ‘fully-remote’ law firm acting in a class action, recently faced a disqualification motion when one of its attorneys (who was not advising the plaintiffs in the class action) moonlighted as a document reviewer for the defendant. The application was successfully resisted.
We mention it as we have also heard of such an instance in a large law firm in the UK. Firms should be alert to the risk and ensure that their terms of employment prohibit other employment without the firm’s consent.
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