According to relevant regulations, lawyers and law firms are not allowed to establish or maintain a client relationship with a client under any of the following circumstances:
1. A lawyer serves as the representative of both parties in the same case. Agent, or agent in legal matters that conflicts with interests of the lawyer or his close relatives;
2. When a lawyer handles litigation or non-litigation business, his close relatives shall be the legal representatives or agents of the other party;
3. Administrative agency staff, judges, prosecutors, and arbitrators who have personally handled or tried a certain matter or case and then handled the matter or case after becoming a lawyer;
4. Different lawyers from the same law firm serve as the victim's agent and the criminal suspect's and defendant's defender in the same criminal case, except where there is only one law firm in the county and the consent of the parties has been obtained in advance;
5. In civil litigation, administrative litigation, and arbitration cases, different lawyers from the same law firm serve as agents for both parties to the dispute, or the firm or its staff is one party and other lawyers from the firm serve as the other party. Agent of one party;
6. In non-litigation business, in addition to entrustment by all parties, lawyers from the same law firm also serve as agents of interested parties;
7 .After the client relationship is terminated, the same law firm or lawyer accepts the other party's client in subsequent trials or handling of the same case.
Article 49 of the "Code of Conduct for Lawyers" If a lawyer has an interest or conflict of interest with the client handling the entrusted matter, he shall not undertake the business and shall withdraw himself.
Article 51 If a lawyer encounters any of the following circumstances, he shall inform the client and voluntarily withdraw, except where the client agrees to his representation or continuation of the undertaking:
(1) Accepting the entrustment of a party in a civil litigation or arbitration case, and other lawyers in the same firm are close relatives of the other party in the case;
(2) Serving as defenders for criminal suspects or defendants in criminal cases, with the same firm The other lawyers are close relatives of the victim in the case;
(3) The same law firm accepts litigation cases or other legal business entrusted by the other party who is not a party;
(4) )The law firm has a legal service relationship with the client, and the client does not require the lawyer of the law firm to serve as his agent in litigation or arbitration cases, but the lawyer of the law firm serves as the agent of the client's counterparty;< /p>
(5) Within one year after the client relationship is terminated, the lawyer accepts a client's client's client who has an interest in the original client on the same legal matter; ) to items (5) and other similar situations can be judged based on the lawyer’s professional experience and industry common sense.
When lawyers and law firms discover the above situations, they shall inform the client of the facts and possible consequences of the conflict of interest, and the client shall decide whether to establish or maintain an entrustment relationship. If the client decides to establish or maintain an entrustment relationship, he or she shall sign an informed consent form, indicating that the party concerned has been informed of the basic facts of the conflict of interest and the possible legal consequences, and that the client expressly agrees to establish or maintain an entrustment relationship with the law firm and lawyer.