Attorney ethics guidelines prevent information that is learned by an attorney while working for one client to someday be used to the advantage of their competitor. Further, Altera never wants a client to feel that their decision to share confidential information with Altera will ever come back to haunt them.

Therefore, before agreeing to represent any client, big or small, Altera conducts a thorough check to ensure that we do not agree to represent someone whose interests are adverse to one of our exiting clients.

We will make no exception to this practice unless both parties, old client and new client, agree to our representation after full disclosure, in accordance with the ethics rules.