Practicing on the Side is a Concern

  If no law prevents someone in the attorney general office from practicing law privately, on the side, is it wrong to do so, just the same?
   More to the point, should John Swallow have been practicing on the side, while serving as the chief deputy in the state's attorney general office? Our governor, Gary Herbert, has said his general counsel had to give up  private practice in order to take the state position. So, the logic that what Swallow did violated good judgment and ethics has standing.
   Sen. Todd Weiler, Woods Cross, is expected to introduce legislation preventing the attorney general and those in his office from pacticing on the side.
   I do not know for certain that what Swallow did was lawyerly. Maybe it was consulting of another kind. But, perhaps even if it were consulting of another kind, that also might should be banned as a conflict of interest.