Lawyers representing corporate clients and law firms with multiple offices are likely to benefit from the Committee’s latest opinion, and the withdrawal of Formal Opinion 93-372. In fact, it is quite likely that in many jurisdictions, applicable standards of practice had already moved well beyond the prior opinion. Formal Opinion 05-436 does not, however, offer black-and-white tests to measure the validity of a client’s waiver. In other words, specific facts and circumstances, as well as judicial perceptions of fairness and local precedent, may still play significant roles in specific cases.