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When a single law firm rotates personnel through a representation, downstream attorneys often disclaim responsibility for conduct begun by predecessors, while predecessors disclaim responsibility for conduct ratified or extended by successors. Read side by side, two or more per-attorney bar complaints arising from the same representation create a textbook impeachment opportunity for respondents: each filing appears to blame a different person, which lets each respondent point at the others and argue that the complainant has no coherent theory of attribution. The Originating-Attorney Attribution Methodology pre-empts this attack by inserting an identical attribution paragraph into every per-attorney filing that flows from a shared representation, locking the attribution theory before any individual respondent has a chance to read the package.