§ 26543 District Attorney Conflict Limits

• •If you work as a district attorney or county counsel, you can't help private people sue a city or government group while you're still in that job.
• •This rule is to avoid conflicts of interest—you can't work for both the government and someone suing the government at the same time.
• •It only applies while you're in the job, not before or after.

A county counsel is asked by their neighbor to help sue the city because the neighbor's property was damaged by a city truck.

The county counsel can't take the case because they work for the government, and the city is part of the government. It would be like playing for both teams in a game.