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Lawyer question
I have a question about lawyers.
We'll make it hypothetical.
There is a Irrevocable trust formed.
The person dies.
Two people are having a difference of opinion about the trust. One is a beneficiary, the other is the executor. The executor's lawyer clearly stated to the beneficiary, that he is representing the executor, not them.
The beneficiary goes to a lawyer to retain him for themselves.
The lawyer they choose, at the very first meeting, tells the beneficiary, that him and the lawyer for the executor are very good friends.
The beneficiary does not truly understand the implications regarding what they were told. (as far as the two lawyers being very good friends), and retains the lawyer anyway.
This is the question:
Shouldn't the lawyer have told the beneficiary that it would be a conflict of interest for him to take the case? (because of the fact of him and the other lawyer being very good friends)
I have pondered this, and know that lawyers usually have lawyers for friends, so where do , or should they draw the line as far as the conflict issue?
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