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Maybe but not necessarily. The answer turns on whether or not 1) an attorney client relationship was formed in the the first consultation and 2) the information imparted in the initial consultation was believed by John to be confidential and 3) the information imparted in the first consultation was related to the matter for which Jim retained him or her.The matter of having been paid or not paid does not usually determine the question whether an attorney client relationship has been formed such that the lawyer has a duty of loyalty and confidentiality to John, nor does the matter of having been retained or not. The duty to a prospective client is often somewhat lower than to a current or former client, so that has to be sorted out first. John might be considered a former client or a prospective client, depending on the jurisdiction and its rules.The careful lawyer maintains a conflict of interest system for just such an eventuality. In high conflict domestic relations and in certain kinds of business litigation it is not at all uncommon for parties to consult with all the scariest/most aggressive/best known firms locally prior to filing suit, in order to conflict them all out from the get-go.Of course, with consent any number of things are usually possible.The ABA has a Model Rule, 1.8 which covers duties to prospective clients. I do not know whether California has adopted it or a similar rule, or whether there are Bar opinions on the matter in California. These would clear things up considerably.If this is a real situation instead of a hypothetical, then please see the disclaimer below (especially the part about your Aunt Fanny's cat) and then inquire of somebody who knows what they are talking about.

China and Greece face fundamentally different sets of economic issues. As such, China is unlikely to follow the same path that Greece is on -- which is definitely bleak in my opinion.Let's start by re-capping what has happened in both countries since the Global Financial Crisis in 2008.Greece. Greece is stuck in an unholy currency union and the best example of why the current Eurozone is not a well-functioning optimum currency area. Its economy is not as competitive as the more industrialized Northern Eurozone countries. This became painfully apparent in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis and very little has been done in the eight years since to address the underlying issues. Normally when countries are less competitive, their central bankers have a very strong weapon that can ease the adjustment, namely currency devaluation. However, as a result of being part of the Euro currency regime, the Bank of Greece has had this tool taken away. As a result, policymakers need to resort to far less optimal and equitable methods to adjust, including moves like fiscal austerity, wage suppression and the slow outflow of Greek workers to more prosperous economies. The biggest negative impact here is very high youth unemployment which will most certainly have major deleterious and long-term effects on the competitiveness of the Greek economy. Furthermore, each year that these issues are not dealt with increases the risk of extreme right-wing sentiment becoming mainstream and potentially sending Europe back to 1938. If this is allowed to occur, this would truly turn into an unmitigated disaster. The post-GFC recovery of Greece contrasts sharply with that of Iceland which experienced a sharp devaluation in its Krona but was thus able to make the necessary adjustments to get back on track in the years since.China. China is transitioning its economy from one where fixed investment and export growth were the principal drivers to one where consumption and the services economy will account for the majority of growth. The Global Financial Crisis made China realize that it could no longer rely as much on export growth as before. At that point, policymakers pushed the pedal on fixed investment and financed this largely with debt in a manner which has resulted in a significant amount of loss-making projects in the system. These losses are being floated and have not yet been "dealt with" while China enacts a fairly comprehensive set of largely market-oriented social and economic reforms that are designed to change the structure of the economy such that household sector can capture a larger share of the economy. This in turn will be funneled back into consumption, creating the virtuous cycle you see in many well-functioning developed countries, the best example being the United States. At least in theory.Now let's highlight some of the main differences:Greece's debt is primarily held by external parties while China's is held mostly by domestic institutions. This significantly lowers the risk of an acute crisis (although it does not mean that losses and bad projects can magically disappear)Greece's main issue in the past was over-consumption (largely funded by external debt) while China's economic imbalances were caused by over-investment. From this perspective, China is more like Germany which was also over-saving and over-investing relative to weaker Eurozone economies like Greece.Greece is more developed relative to China. Even after nearly a decade of economic stagnation, its per capita GDP (PPP) is still nearly double that of China's. The difference in household consumption per capita is even greater, with Greece household per capita spending nearly 4x that of China. The implication here is that there is still a significant amount of productivity catch-up left -- for example simply continuing the urbanization process and increasing urbanization rates from 56% to 75-80% that you see in Japan and the United States.China is already several steps down the path of re-balancing its economy while Greece and the Eurozone (in my opinion) have barely begun to address the fundamental issues of the unholy currency union. This is largely because much of China's destiny is under the control of its own policymakers while Greece (due to its external debt situation, inability to control its own monetary policy) has to rely on a motley group of policymakers representing a wide variety of interests, many of which are not aligned with Greece's best interests. It is no surprise that the status quo thus far has been to merely push the problems into the future while Greece's youth and general population suffer economically and systemic risk grows.For sure, China will eventually have to deal with all of the losses that are currently embedded in the system in the form of debt that cannot be serviced by its underlying assets. It is not clear what percentage of China's debt needs to be written down although some reasonable estimates I have seen range from 5 to 15%. At the high end of this range, we are talking about approximately 30 trillion RMB ($4.6 trillion USD). While this number might seem very large, whether it leads to an acute crisis (the type that can lead to "collapse") is largely dependent on how much time policymakers have to deal with it.Unlike Greece, I believe that Chinese policymakers have the luxury of dealing with these losses by absorbing them over a long period of time and in a relatively orderly process. The main effect of this re-balancing process will be lower overall GDP growth during the re-balancing process but China would be able to avoid the more negative effects of a sudden crisis. By avoiding a sharp financial crisis, Chinese policymakers have the time and space to implement the market-oriented reforms that they need to move to a more sustainable (albeit lower) growth model.

What you are asking about falls under the concept ofsovereignty. In a broad sense, sovereignty is defined the full right and powerof a governing body to govern itself without any interference from outsidesources or bodies. In political theory, sovereignty is a substantive termdesignating supreme authority over some polity (society or state). Whendiscussing sovereignty we are talking about the right of the individual collective,geographically defined area, or politically defined area.Sovereignty is the basic principle underlying the dominantWestphalian model of state foundation. The Westphalian model focuses on thestate as a sovereign (independent) entity recognized under both domestic andinternational law. The sovereign state is said to have the power to regulateand rule on all domestic relations or issues arising within the borders of theindividual state. Similarly, those actions by the state which go beyond theborders also share in the concept of independence and ability that self-rule.Working with this approach and mine, we would see that manynations in independent states protect their sovereignty with various methodsincluding voluntary membership in international organizations – such as theUnited Nations – and up to or including the use of a defense system to protectboth the border and the concept of the state. In other words, a sovereignnation or state has a right of self-governance but in the modern approach to aconcept a worldwide order some nations may voluntarily participate in theinternational cooperative regulatory scheme.As noted, most nations retain their sovereignty; however,there are instances when a nation may lose a bit of sovereignty based on theoften voluntary involvement in an international community. An example of thiswould be the “rules of war” established through the Hague conventions. Moreprecisely, when dealing with war crimes the sovereign may through its voluntarymembership agree that certain actions are both regulated and enforceablethrough an international body.Another example is under conditions of genocide where theindividual ruler or the ruling class of a given country have taken actions toeradicate a group or part of the population. In recent news, we see pressure onthe United States to define actions in Iraq, Libya and other locations withinthe Middle East and Northern Africa to fit the definition of genocide.Individual sovereignty of the country can then be modified or even ignored sothat the international body may seek humanitarian, military or otherintervention on behalf of the harmed population.