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A. This sounds like a Florida Bar exam question in the business association portion of the exam or the ethics portion of the question.</div>
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B. You can never go wrong declining representation. As my future interests prof at Vanderbilt said, "When in doubt, do the conservative thing." Amazingly, Mr. Bostick is apparently still alive:
<a href="https://law.vanderbilt.edu/bio/dent-bostick" id="LPlnk335557">https://law.vanderbilt.edu/bio/dent-bostick</a><br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 14, 2020 11:33 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> landten@lists.flabarrpptl.org <landten@lists.flabarrpptl.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [RPPTL Leasing Committee] Potential conflict of interest?</font>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Husband owns 100% of LLC B and LLC B is the sole owner of LLC C. LLC C is the tenant of the commercial property owned by LLC A.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Wife and husband divorced in December 2019. Strangely enough, the tenant (LLC C) has stopped paying rent and the now ex-wife has approached me to file an eviction lawsuit against the tenant (basically,
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">My concern is that Corporation A is owned 51% by ex-wife and 49% by ex-husband and Corporation A owns 100% of LLC A, the owner and landlord of the commercial property.
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">My client, I believe, would be LLC A only, the owner and landlord and I would prepare my engagement letter to say that I only represent LLC A.
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I have read Rule 4.1-13 of the ethics rules regarding representing organizations. Still the situation concerns me. Does anyone have any thoughts?
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