But Gerhard Casper worries that any president sitting on a board can pose a conflict of interest.
In addition, advisers will have to disclose information that might pose a conflict of interest, like compensation for referrals.
Asked whether such payments could pose a conflict of interest for physicians, Dr. Tria said, "It's a legitimate concern".
This is an unpredictable revenue stream, and it may also pose a conflict of interest since public defenders end up representing many defendants whose fines support their salaries.
Gov. Jesse Ventura's new broadcast job with the XFL does not pose a conflict of interest, a Minnesota official ruled Monday.
Mr. McClellan said Mr. Baker would renounce his partnership share of any fees his law firm received from clients who might pose a conflict of interest.
Representatives of Mr. Usmanov and Mr. Shuvalov have not disputed this characterization, but said the transaction was legal, violated no Russian laws and did not pose a conflict of interest.
On Tuesday, the Serious Fraud Office cautioned that as a first step it needed to make sure that its use of an Autonomy product, Introspect, as a document management tool, did not pose a conflict of interest.
BP engineers resented having their competitors involved, insisting that this could pose a conflict of interest, while the usefulness of their input was unclear.
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