“Flynn’s new legal team unleashes on his old lawyers in bid to withdraw guilty plea” —

• “The new legal team for former national security adviser Michael Flynn unleashed a withering assault Wednesday on Flynn’s old lawyers, accusing them of a conflict of interest so severe that it merits allowing the ex-Trump aide to withdraw the guilty plea he entered more than two years ago.”
• “Flynn’s current squad of attorneys contend that Flynn’s original legal counsel with the prominent Washington law firm Covington & Burling was too enmeshed in the early stages of Flynn’s legal troubles to give him detached advice about what to do once prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller’s office began threatening to prosecute the retired Army lieutenant general.”
• “‘Mr. Flynn’s guilty plea (and later failure to withdraw it) was the result of the ineffective assistance of counsel provided by his former lawyers, who were in the grip of intractable conflicts of interest, and severely prejudiced him,’ Flynn’s current lead counsel, Sidney Powell, and her colleagues wrote in the 49-page motion filed on Wednesday afternoon. ‘That pernicious conflict infected and prejudiced his defense until he retained new counsel in 2019.'”

“Law firm A&O told to drop client over conflict of interest” —

• “Luxembourg’s bar association ordered Allen & Overy to stop working on behalf of fund services firm Alter Domus after a complaint the mandate constituted a conflict of interest for the magic circle UK law firm.”
  “A&O’s work for LFP I’s opponent showed the law firm had switched sides, LFP I argued, because it had represented the fund itself in a related case.”
• “Alter Domus bought Luxembourg Fund Partners, the management company of LFP I, in December 2017, putting it in charge of financial and risk management, compliance and other administrative tasks at LFP I. But shareholders appointed new directors late in 2018, when they found millions of euros had gone missing from LFP I, an umbrella structure that allowed other managers to set up sub-funds within it.”
• “The new directors sacked Alter Domus as the fund’s management company, and have since filed several lawsuits against it. Alter Domus had hired Allen & Overy to defend it against LFP I in one case concerning Columna, one of the several sub-funds under the umbrella structure. But the law firm had earlier been working for LFP I itself to defend it against a shareholder claim in a related case, which had to do with the Aventor sub-fund, according to the ruling of the bar association.”
• “Allen & Overy argued the two cases were separate because they involved different sub-funds within LFP I, but the bar association said that sensitive information could have been compromised regardless.”