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[null,"Law Clerks Conflict Log For Potential Texas Lawyers:\n\n"]
[null,"Before hiring you as a lawyer, a law firm may ask you for a list of the matters on which you have ever worked as a law clerk.  Your former employers may be unable or unwilling to help you prepare a list or may not be able to respond in the time you need.  The best approach is to keep a contemporaneous record."]
[null,"The form under the Work History tab is one way to capture the essential information for a conflicts check.  You should fill in the form contemporaneously with each assignment."]
[null,"Under DR 1.05, the information on this form is confidential.  You should safeguard it by using a password for the program and by storing the program only on a computer protected by a password.  You should also back-up the program in a similarly secure way.  Be sure to record your password somewhere safe.  Should you loose you password, you will be unable to recover your data."]
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[null,"You may disclose information from the form to your potential employer but only to the extent necessary to determine whether your employment would create any conflicts if the firm hired you.  For what and how to disclose, see Professional Ethics Committee for the State Bar of Texas, Opinion No. 607 (July 2011)."]
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[null,"While maintaining this form may strike you as a chore, doing so is no different from what practicing lawyers must do to ensure compliance with their duty of loyalty under the rules of professional responsibility."]
[null,"Before undertaking any particular clerking assignment, if there is a high risk that it might preclude future employment, you should consider asking your employer not to assign you to the matter for that reason.  We do not foresee this happening often, but, for example, if you are clerking for Firm A in the first half of the summer and Firm B in the second half, you may not want to work on a problem at Firm A where Firm B is on the other side."]

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["Start Date and End Date","Law Firm","Supervising Lawyer","Client","Matter","Work","Opposing Law Firm","Opposing Lawyer"]
["Start and end dates of the work.","Name of the law firm employing you.","Partner or associate under whose supervision you did the work.","Client’s full legal name.","If litigation, the cause number, style, and court.  \nIf a transaction, a brief description of the nature of the firm’s representation without revealing confidential information (e.g., “acquisition” as opposed to “acquisition of competitor X”).\n","A brief description of the nature of your work without revealing confidential information  (e.g, research memo, legal research, sorting documents, making copies, attended strategy discussion, attended hearing)","Name of the law firm on the other side of the litigation or transaction","Name of lead counsel on the other side of the litigation or transaction."]
["3/28/2015 - 4/2/2015","Firm A","Mr. Alpha","Client A","Will for Client A.","Drafted will for client A.  Research legal question of definition of benificiary.","None","None"]
["4/1/2015 - 4/1/2015","Firm B","Mr. Baker","Client B","Cause: 2014-0023, Client A V. Client B","Took Mr. C's deposition in preparation for trial.","Firm C","Mr. Charlie"]

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["Start Date and End Date","Law Firm","Supervising Lawyer","Client","Matter","Work","Opposing Law Firm","Opposing Lawyer"]