Clemens Attorney to Stay

Today, Rusty Hardin obtained the appropriate waiver to represent Roger Clemens in his upcoming trial. Generally, attorneys are not allowed to represent individuals if there is a "conflict of interest," meaning the attorney has represented a confictying party is a previous case. This regulation is intended to prevent legal professionals from representing one party and learning confidential information about that party, and later representing another party who has adverse interests to the original party, whereby the attorney can utuilize the information he had obtained on the original party for his new client's advantage. Here, Hardin briefly represented Andy Pettitte several years ago, and Pettitte is expected to be one of the star witnesses in Clemens' upcoming trial. However, as mentioned above, Hardin has obtained the appropriate waivers that will allow him to represent Clemens in his tiral.