LK Operating, LLC v. Collection Group, LLC

¶1 — Rules of professional conduct have been used to prohibit lawyers from enforcing agreements with clients that lawyers were a party to. But those same rules have not been applied to support actions for legal malpractice or for equitable relief or damages based on a lawyer’s ethical lapses. Here, the court refused to enforce a business agreement between two limited liability companies (LLCs) after concluding that the lawyer representing the parties represented both sides at the same time and therefore violated Rule of Professional Conduct (RPC) 1.7 (prohibiting lawyers from representing…