Did Assemblyman Van Tran, in only one sentence, just cause a conflict of interest that forever bars the mighty law firm of Snell & Wilmer from conducting any business before the City of Westminster?
The Bolsavik knows very little of how the public law business works, but some of the things that just happened raised the issue.
Assemblyman Van Tran is a lawyer, yes, but he’s not a free-floating, unattached lawyer the way he was when he had his solo office on Bolsa. He’s now affiliated with a law firm, being of-counsel to the 400-attorney-strong Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
Now, the rule is, in a law firm, a conflict of interest by one lawyer affects all their lawyers.
Most large law firms have a database and full-time people dedicated just to make sure the numerous relationships by their hundreds of lawyers don’t conflict with the firm’s work.
Now, Van Tran just went out of his way to identify himself, several times and on recorded audio tape, to law enforcement officers, that he’s the lawyer to Westminster City Councilman Andy Quach (read here; source here). That probably makes Quach his client.
As a matter of law, that would make Andy Quach a client of the entire firm of Snell & Wilmer.
Does that mean that as long as Quach sits on the Westminster City Council, Snell & Wilmer (and its hundreds of lawyers) is barred from conducting any business for, and/or before, and/or against, the city?
Does it mean Snell & Wilmer can’t represent the city?
Does it mean Snell & Wilmer can’t represent any of its thousands of clients with businesses before the city?
Does it mean that Snell & Wilmer can never represent any clients, even the numerous developers who are its current clients, who want to sue the city?
And if Snell is currently representing anyone suing or doing business with Westminster, does it mean the firm has to conflict out and renounce that business?
The Bolsavik doesn’t know any of the answers. Just asking the questions. Maybe someone who knows can answer.
The silver lining is, even if there’s a conflict, it probably won’t last past the 2010 elections.
One thing the Bolsavik is pretty sure of, is that Mr. Tran almost certainly violated whatever internal rules Snell & Wilmer has about its lawyers going around claiming to represent clients without first clearing with the firm’s conflict department. But that’s Snell’s business.
An accredited tier four law school in MN is still much better than other hundreds of unaccredited, correspondence, and online law schools in CA. The issue here is not the quality of the Honorable Van Tran’s law school, but whether he failed his duty as an Assemblyman when he tried to represent a potential suspect in a criminal case.
Verum, I don’t see any leadersip quality in you ..or decency in that matter.
Hence your elite education time/money was a total wasted effort. You know your brain capacity is certainly lacking for comprehension of any magnitude …..of issues pertaining to this life or viet community.
Get your tuition back from your elite scool…this only enhances my observation that one’s education starts at home by a good parent.
Tien, having served bad food lately? Go try some authentic dishes from your homeland in Anaheim.
Asssemblyman or congressman as a personal friend..should defend his friends. We are talking about lousy traffic accident with dui concern and I am glad he had shown plenty of compassion for his fellow viet friend by stepping up in difficult situation. This is what true “freindship” is about…
Unfortunately, this is the also quality deeply lack by selfish Andrew Do and Janet Nguyen people. They only swallow when it’s sweet but spit them out quickly when it’s little sour for their personal gain.
“lousy traffic accident with dui concern”?! haha! what an idiot you are jung kim. “dui concern” i almost spit out my gourmet coffee.
J_Dung Kim; Have you forgotten the pill again?
Jose s.: don’t waste your good coffee.
There is a person with a different opinion about the lousy accident. Quote from Van Tran’s statement:” My friend was involved in a very serious accident.”
jose s, do you need to have a cup of coffee after licking solorio’s butt? or is it a bowl of left over menudo?
ocpolIdon’tknow…….are you trying to play with your rock again this morning? ..I mean your hardened brain cluster!
bo may, i wont i have a saying: life is too short to drink bad coffee. and jung kim, i love menudo but i’m kinda partial to pho myself have been since the first viet restaurants opened. so go F your communist self.and my friend the bolsavik, why dont you do some restaurant reviews on here? that would be really cool. oh and one more thing jung kim, solorio never has had a “dui concern”
“unaccredited, correspondence, and online law schools in CA”….. YOU MUST BE REFERRING TO DINA NGUYEN, THE COUNCIL WOMAN OF GARDEN GROVE (SHE’S STILL NOT SURE WHAT SHE’S SUPPOSE TO DO). TYLOR TRUONG DIEP (AKA: JUNG KIM & BARKING DOG FOR HIRE), before you start barking, go and check into it yourself… WE DID!!!
Now that we know we cannot trust the Trannies – or the Jannies, which O.C. Viet politicians can we trust and respect?
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/08/which-orange-county-vietnamese-american-politician-do-you-trust-and-respect-the-most/
Forget Tran. Did you hear that rising star Hugh Nguyen got State Senator Bob Huff’s endorsement yesterday? He is on track to beat Chris Norby…
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/08/state-senator-endorses-hugh-nguyen-for-o-c-clerk-recorder/
hey art quit blogwhoring on here. and quit trying to get people to vote on your lame little surveys.
asians rule in the garbage can, yeah, Andrew Do has a papers from Harvard, Yale and Princeton and they are holding a pound of dust in his sandwich shop!
Good one, JK!