SAN FRANCISCO — Century City litigator William Ginsburg apparently thought it wouldn’t be a problem to join an ADR provider while it was conducting an arbitration for one of his medical malpractice cases.

The Second District Court of Appeal saw it differently Tuesday, establishing a bright-line rule that a lawyer’s membership in the ADR provider deciding his case must be disclosed to the other side.

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