2. Using the material presented in the chapter on conflicts of interest, determine which type of conflict of interest is presented in the situations below:

a. A lawyer has a case pending before the state supreme court, advocating that divorced parents must obtain court permission for their children to move more than 300 miles from the other parent. The same lawyer takes a case for a client who wants to move 700 miles from the other parent, and he argues that the court does not need to grant permission. This case will likely end up before the state supreme court.

b. Melissa is an attorney with a criminal law practice.

She has a big case in which her client was convicted of violating the state’s recently enacted medical marijuana law, and she is appealing his conviction to the state supreme court. Tom, her husband, is a paralegal who works for the state attorney’s office and has been assigned to gather research opposing the brief that Melissa filed on behalf of her client.

c. Attorney Sam prepares a will for a client; the will leaves the client’s vacation home to Sam.

d. A new client brings a case to attorney Mark and asks Mark to represent him. The case would require Mark to sue a former client whom he previously defended on the same issue.