Keuffer v. O.F. Mossberg & Sons, Inc.

¶24 I dissent.

¶25 The Court today upholds the District Court’s disqualification order without reasoned analysis of the applicable Rule. When Luke Keuffer contacted the Tarlow & Stonecipher firm “about the possibility of forming a client-lawyer relationship,” he became a prospective client pursuant to M. R. Prof. Cond. 1.20(a). It is undisputed, however, that the Keuffers never established a client-attorney relationship with the Tarlow & Stonecipher firm. In Perry, we recognized that Rule 1.20 requires examination of whether a lawyer received information from a prospective client that could be…