The following excerpt is from In re Sundance Self Storage-El Dorado LP, Case No. 10-36676-D-7 (Bankr. E.D. Cal. 2012):
60. "The paramount concern must be to preserve public trust in the scrupulous administration of justice and the integrity of the bar. The important right to counsel of one's choice must yield to ethical considerations that affect the fundamental principles of our judicial process." People ex rel. Dep't of Corporations v. SpeeDee Oil Change Systems, Inc., 20 Cal. 4th 1135, 1145 (1999).
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