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REAL-ESTATE-LAW5 MIN READ

A Conflict Is A Material Limitation Before It Is A Fight

Apply the concurrent-conflict frame to joint or related-party real-estate representation.

The practical move is to test whether your advice may need to diverge before you accept the extra role. What The Conflict Frame Teaches A concurrent conflict can exist not only when clients are directly adverse, but also when a significant risk exists that one representation will be materially limited by duties to another client, a former client, a third person, or the lawyer's own interest. In real-estate work, that risk often hides inside friendly urgency: family transfers, developer affiliates, seller financing, shared brokers, joint ventures, and leasebacks. Why It Works If the lawyer's ability to negotiate remedies, demand disclosures,…

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