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practicing private attorney. That would bother me. Alright. I'm <br /> not saying it's wrong, it would just bother me to know that. I'm <br /> not saying it was you, but to know when someone in my office had <br /> that ability. Thirdly, reputation in society, your reputation. <br /> Alright. Once you've established your reputation as an <br /> immigration worker, a lot of people in this community start relying <br /> on you as person to go to, the go to person. Right. You know that <br /> from being there a long time, you're the go to person in the <br /> community. Right now, if you go out and start practicing <br /> privately, you get a new constituencies. You get families that are <br /> your own private families. This might cause some degree of <br /> problems with the people that consider you a public servant saying <br /> no she's a lawyer for that family over there and I don't like that <br /> family over there so I can't go to her because I can't feel <br /> comfortable because she's that other family's lawyer. You see <br /> that? Okay I'm not saying this wrong, I'm just pointing it out to <br /> you. The third one is that referrals. How are you going to handle <br /> referrals at this point? Now you're no longer just a County person <br /> who's sitting in there trying to refer these people to get help around <br /> the community. You're a practicing attorney also and I, you say <br /> well I won't refer to myself. Every time you make a referral out <br /> for any legal purposes, that person that gets it is gonna have an <br /> obligation to you for doing that referral. At some point this could <br /> become some kind of cronyism involved. I'll give referrals to my <br /> friend, my friends will take of me now situations. Therefore this <br /> becomes unbalance and I'm pointing these out. I don't say that <br /> they're happening, but these are problems that you have to look at. <br /> What I suggest you do is you go to your supervisor in your office <br /> and ask her if she's comfortable with you being a practicing <br /> attorney in immigration law and working in the office. If she has <br /> no problems with it, it may be alright. The second thing I would <br /> suggest to you is go to the bar association and tell them you're <br /> starting to do this. Tell them what your contact with the <br /> communities are and be as open as you can to them. Let them <br /> make a call on it and see if they both say it's alright. It's alright <br /> with me. Okay. <br /> Ms. Bautista: Can I respond to that? <br /> Mr. Adams: Yes. <br /> Ms. Bautista: Absolutely, all comments that you made are very clear appearance <br /> of impropriety. That's the reason why I haven't done it all this <br /> time and that's why in my petition I said that I would exclude <br />