Ethics Guardrails

Conflict Review Trace

Conflict review can be represented as unknown rows and human review. Honesty note: simplified legal ethics guardrail model; ABA Model Rules are model rules and state adoption varies; the pinned first step carries the full honesty note.

highlighted = computed this step

Ethics model honesty note

Honesty note: simplified legal ethics guardrail model; ABA Model Rules are model rules and state adoption varies; as of June 24, 2026; not legal advice; code encodes a process and label model, not the law itself.

ethics model as of June24,2026\text{ethics model as of }June 24, 2026

Use a conflict-review trace

The stated process stores client identity, matter relationship, interest alignment, and human-review rows. ABA Model Rule 1.7 is a model-rule source label.

source=ABAModelRule1.7\text{source}=ABA Model Rule 1.7

Example conflict packet

The toy packet leaves client, matter, interest, and review rows unknown so the trace stays in review mode.

unknown rows stay open\text{unknown rows stay open}

The trace recomputes unknowns

The compiled trace has 4 rows and 4 unknown rows.

rows=4,unknown=4\text{rows}=4,\quad \text{unknown}=4

Diagram note

The diagram is a review trace. It does not resolve the conflict-review question.

review trace only\text{review trace only}

Jurisdiction: US; as of 2026-06-24; not legal advice; Code encodes a process and label model, not the law itself.

Simplified conflict review trace client: unknown via client=None compare=True matter: unknown via matter=None compare=True interest: unknown via interest=None compare=True review: unknown via review=None compare=True

Summary

Conflict-sensitive tooling should keep identity, matter, interest, and review labels explicit and unresolved.

labels unresolved\text{labels unresolved}