Attorney-Client Relationship. 13.1 Nothing in this Agreement is intended to require action that may impair the attorney-client privilege, or other evidentiary privilege as may exist in favor of SELLER in connection with the Litigation. This Agreement shall not be interpreted or enforced in a manner that would have the effect of loss of any such privilege. If redacting portions of any writing, required to be given PURCHASER in this Agreement, would avoid waiver or loss of any such privilege: the writing shall be redacted by Attorney or SELLER's Attorney so as to avoid waiver or loss of privilege and provided to PURCHASER. PURCHASER shall be notified that the writing was redacted for that purpose and shall be advised of the general subject matter of the redacted material. Further, nothing in this Agreement is intended to prevent or impair Plaintiffs', Attorney's, SELLER's, and SELLER's Attorney's ability to vigorously conduct the Litigation in such manner as they deem in good faith and in their sole discretion will benefit Plaintiffs and SELLER, without interference from PURCHASER. Provided, however, nothing shall be interpreted as restricting PURCHASER's exercise of its discretion in analysis of the results of its due diligence under Section 15.0, below, or enforcement of PURCHASER's rights under this Agreement and the Assignment, in the event of a breach of the terms of this Agreement.
13.2 Should a dispute arise at any time between Plaintiffs, SELLER, and Attorney, or any of them, regarding payment or application of any sums recovered on the Judgment, which dispute may delay, reduce or otherwise affect payment or retention of the Judgment Amount Assigned to PURCHASER, SELLER shall promptly notify PURCHASER in writing and shall nevertheless immediately pay, on a pro rata basis, any undisputed portion of the sums recovered. The Notice shall state the facts of the dispute in order that PURCHASER may fully assert its rights. In order to allow PURCHASER to become fully aware of the dispute, SELLER hereby authorizes Attorney and SELLER'S Attorney to provide PURCHASER all facts and information related to the dispute. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, including subparagraph 13.1, above, SELLER expressly waives attorney-client privilege as to information requested by PURCHASER under these limited circumstances and for this limited purpose. Should the dispute delay payment of any amount otherwise due or payable to PURCHASER, all amounts due or payable to PURCHASER shall be...
Attorney-Client Relationship. Attorney shall be the sole determiner of whether to provide legal advice and to perform any legal services on behalf of Attorney Needs LLC’s customers and shall be free to decline such representation with or without cause.If the Attorney and a customer agree that the Attorney will provide legal advice to and perform legal services on behalf of customer, the Attorney and Attorney Needs LLC acknowledge that Attorney and the customer will then be entering into an Attorney- client relationship and that all laws, rules and regulations pertaining to an Attorney-client relationship shall apply. The parties acknowledge that neither Attorney Needs LLC nor any of its representatives or employees are engaged in the practice of law. The Attorney will not hold himself/herself out as being employed by Attorney Needs LLC or as practicing law in conjunction with Attorney Needs LLC in any regard. Attorney acknowledges and agrees to be solely responsible for the provision of legal services to his/her clients. Attorney will not disclose confidential, privileged information received from an individual for whom Attorney is performing any service without his/her client’s informed consent. Nothing in this agreement shall be construed or interpreted as giving rise to an Attorney-Client relationship between Attorney Needs LLC, an Attorney Needs LLC Representative and Attorney.
Attorney-Client Relationship. All attorneys are subject to the authority of the State Supreme Court and the State Bar of the state where they are licensed to practice. The Member’s relationship with an attorney is privileged and strictly confidential. We will not interfere in the attorney-client relationship, nor in the attorney’s independent exercise of his or her professional judgment. Attorneys are not certified specialists. The Member shall authorize the Participating Attorney to provide the Legal Plan Administrator with information and supporting documentation on the number and type of services provided to the Member. By using legal services that are provided under this Certificate of Coverage, the Members agree that neither We, nor the Contractholder, nor any other person involved in the marketing or administration of the group contract, shall have any liability for the acts, errors or omissions of an attorney providing services, in whole or in part.
Attorney-Client Relationship. The Attorney General is the chief law officer of the State of Ohio and, as such, is the legal representative of the State of Ohio, including its various agencies, boards, commissions, departments, colleges, universities, retirement systems and political subdivisions (collectively, the “State Clients”). Pursuant to this Retention Agreement, Special Counsel is appointed to provide legal services on behalf of the Attorney General to assist in the collection of past due debt owed to State Clients. For example, Special Counsel who elect to collect unemployment debt in their RFQ response will be collecting unemployment contributions and benefit overpayments owed to the Department of Job and Family Services. No Special Counsel shall be regarded as in the employment of, or as an employee of, the Attorney General or the State Clients for the purpose of the application of State or Federal law or any other purpose. It is fully understood and agreed that Special Counsel is an independent contractor and neither Special Counsel nor his/her personnel or attorney or staff member designees shall at any time or for any purpose be considered as agents, servants, or employees of the Attorney General or the State of Ohio, or as public employees for the purpose of Ohio Public Employees Retirement Systems benefits. In all pleadings, notices, and/or correspondence created pursuant to the Work, Special Counsel shall indicate that such document is prepared in his/her position as Special Counsel for the Attorney General. Special Counsel are considered officers by the Attorney General’s Office for purposes of the Federal Debt Collection Practices Act “FDCPA.” Pursuant to this Retention Agreement, Special Counsel is an independent contractor responsible for all of Special Counsel’s business expenses, including, but not limited to, computers, email and internet access, software, phone service and office space, employees’ wages and salaries, insurance of every type and description, and all business and personal taxes, including income and Social Security taxes and contributions for Workers’ Compensation and Unemployment Compensation, if any. Special Counsel shall not print business cards using the Attorney General’s logo.
Attorney-Client Relationship. The Attorney’s relationship to defendants assigned to him or her shall be that of attorney and client. The Attorney shall remain responsible for the representation of all Defendants assigned pursuant to this Agreement until the Defendants’ cases are concluded in the Monterey County Superior Court, even if the case is concluded after the Agreement expires or is otherwise terminated by the parties.
Attorney-Client Relationship. You have agreed that our representation of the Company in the matter described above does not give rise to an attorney-client relationship between the firm and the Company’s parent, the Company’s shareholder or shareholders, or any of the Company’s affiliates. You also have agreed that the firm during the course of its representation of the Company, will not be given any confidential information regarding the Company’s parent, shareholder or shareholders, or any of the Company’s affiliates. Accordingly, our representation of the Company in the matter will not give rise to any conflict of interest in the event other clients of the firm are adverse to the Company’s parent, the Company’s shareholder or shareholders, or any of the Company’s affiliates.
Attorney-Client Relationship. The Firm shall represent the Sandy City Council as the client. The Firm anticipates working collaboratively with the Sandy City attorneys' office and the administration, but the attorney-client relationship only exists with the City Council and its professional staff. The Firm shall only accept requests from the council as a whole, individual council members, the Executive Director for the city council, and the Assistant Director for the city council. The Firm reports to the council as a whole, the council chair, the council vice-chair, and the Executive Director.
Attorney-Client Relationship. (A) The attorney-client relationship exists exclusively between PA and each Plan Member. LSP will not interfere in any manner whatsoever with that relationship or with the independent exercise of PA's legal judgment in providing Legal Services to and on behalf of Plan Members. PA shall promptly report to LSP any attempts by any officer, director, employee or agent of LSP to interfere in any way with the attorney-client relationship between the PA and any Plan Member.
(B) The attorney-client relationship between PA and Plan Members will not be affected, altered or diminished by LSP.
(C) PA will not refuse to provide Legal Services to a Plan Member except as provided in the professional ethical rules or laws applicable to PA, but LSP will upon the written request of PA terminate or reassign Plan Members who PA can demonstrate repeatedly do not follow Plan procedures.
(D) In the event that: (I) PA determine it is legally or ethically necessary to withdraw from representing a Plan Member; or (II) a Plan Member claims that representation by PA would be unusual, improper, or unethical under the circumstances of the matter involved, then PA shall immediately notify LSP in writing and LSP shall assign other PA to represent the Plan Member. If the Plan Member refuses to accept such substitute counsel, LSP shall refer the Plan Member to the lawyer referral service operated by the appropriate Bar Association. LSP and PA acknowledge that due to the plethora of circumstances that may result in the operation of this paragraph it is impossible to provide for every contingency. LSP and PA will take all necessary steps to resolve such situations by taking into account the best interest of the Plan Member, LSP's spirit and nature and amount of the services rendered by PA to the Plan Member. PA specifically agree to accept the terms of this paragraph in lieu of any rights in the nature of an attorney's lien on the documents, papers and evidence of a Plan Member.
Attorney-Client Relationship. (a) Buyer waives and will not assert, and will cause the Company to waive and to not assert, any conflict of interest arising out of or relating to the representation, after the Closing (the “Post-Closing Representation”), of Sellers in any matter involving this Agreement, the Transaction Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, by Xxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxx & Xxxxx, Inc. (the “Current Representation”).
(b) Buyer hereby acknowledges that any communication between any legal counsel, on the one hand, and Sellers or their respective Representatives, on the other hand, occurring during the Current Representation in connection with any Post-Closing Representation, in each case to the extent governed by the attorney-client privilege shall remain privileged after the Closing; provided that the foregoing waiver and acknowledgment of retention will not extend to any communication not involving this Agreement, the Transaction Documents or any of the contemplated transactions, or to communications with any other Person.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 11.18, in the event that a dispute arises between Buyer or its Affiliates (including the Company), on the one hand, and a third party other than Seller, on the other hand, Buyer and its Affiliates (including the Company) may assert the attorney-client privilege to prevent disclosure of confidential communications to such third party; provided,however, that neither Buyer nor any of its Affiliates (including the Company) may waive such privilege without the prior written consent of Seller Representative.
Attorney-Client Relationship. 14.1. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT IS INTENDED TO REQUIRE ACTION THAT MAY IMPAIR THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE, OR OTHER EVIDENTIARY PRIVILEGE AS MAY EXIST IN FAVOR OF SELLER IN CONNECTION WITH THE LITIGATION. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL NOT BE INTERPRETED OR ENFORCED IN A MANNER THAT WOULD HAVE THE EFFECT OF LOSS OF ANY SUCH PRIVILEGE. IF REDACTING PORTIONS OF ANY WRITING, REQUIRED TO BE GIVEN PURCHASER IN THIS AGREEMENT, WOULD AVOID WAIVER OR LOSS OF ANY SUCH PRIVILEGE: THE WRITING SHALL BE REDACTED BY ATTORNEY SO AS TO AVOID WAIVER OR LOSS OF PRIVILEGE AND PROVIDED TO PURCHASER. PURCHASER SHALL BE NOTIFIED THAT THE WRITING WAS REDACTED FOR THAT PURPOSE AND SHALL BE ADVISED OF THE GENERAL SUBJECT MATTER OF THE REDACTED MATERIAL. FURTHER, NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT IS INTENDED TO PREVENT OR IMPAIR SELLER'S AND ATTORNEY'S ABILITY TO VIGOROUSLY CONDUCT THE LITIGATION IN SUCH MANNER AS THEY DEEM IN GOOD FAITH AND IN THEIR SOLE DISCRETION WILL BENEFIT SELLER, WITHOUT INTERFERENCE FROM PURCHASER. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, NOTHING SHALL BE INTERPRETED AS RESTRICTING PURCHASER'S EXERCISE OF ITS DISCRETION IN ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTS OF ITS DUE DILIGENCE UNDER SECTION 16, BELOW, OR ENFORCEMENT OF PURCHASER'S RIGHTS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT AND THE ASSIGNMENT, IN THE EVENT OF A BREACH OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT.
14.2. Should a dispute arise at anytime between SELLER and Attorney regarding payment or application of any sums recovered on the Judgment, which dispute may delay, reduce or otherwise affect payment or retention of the Judgment Amount Assigned to PURCHASER, SELLER shall promptly notify PURCHASER in writing and shall nevertheless immediately pay, on a pro rata basis, any undisputed portion of the sums recovered. The Notice shall state the facts of the dispute in order that PURCHASER may fully assert its rights. In order to allow PURCHASER to become fully aware of the dispute, SELLER hereby authorizes Attorney to provide PURCHASER all facts and information related to the dispute. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, including Section 14.1, above, SELLER expressly waives attorney-client privilege as to information requested by PURCHASER under these limited circumstances and for this limited purpose. Should the dispute delay payment of any amount otherwise due or payable to PURCHASER, all amounts due or payable to PURCHASER shall begin to bear interest at the rate of 18% per annum, or such lesser rate as shall be the maximum rate permitted by applicable law, ...
