U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law
Nov. 29, 2021
Ethics, schmethics — this is property litigation!
The point is simply this: Government agencies, like all citizens, have an obligation to act not only legally, but morally.
Michael M. Berger
Senior Counsel
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
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USC Law School
Michael M. Berger is senior counsel at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, where he is co-chair of the Appellate Practice Group. He has argued four takings cases in the U.S. Supreme Court.
The law gets a bit strange when it comes to analyzing ethics in property regulation. Oh, sure, courts are mindful of situations where a lawyer may have client conflicts (either by representing multiple clients whose interests do not mesh or by representing a client in front of a governmental body that he or she has represented in the past) and they pay attention to lawyers whose personal relationships with governmental personnel are too close for co...
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