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Leave the setRule 1.9(a)
Client, a competitive swim club, retained Attorney two years ago to negotiate the lease of its training pool, and that work ended when the lease was signed. The landlord under that lease now wants Attorney to sue the club for unpaid rent, and the demand letter puts the arrears at $18,400. At the club's March board meeting Attorney went through what a collection suit would do to the club, what Attorney had picked up about its finances while negotiating the lease, and the club's freedom to defend with other counsel and leave Attorney out of the case altogether. The board voted eight to one to let Attorney take the landlord's side, and Attorney mailed the club a letter the next morning setting out the vote and what the board had been told. The club's secretary put the letter in the corporate book and telephoned to say the board stood by it. Attorney filed the collection action a week later and asked the court for an expedited hearing date. Is Attorney's conduct subject to discipline?
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