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Conflict of interest

A Conflict of Interest is a situation when someone, typically a lawyer or public official, has competing professional or personal interests that would make it difficult to fulfill their duties fairly.

More generally, any situation in which an individual is able to exploit their professional or official capacity in some way.

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