Disqualification

A Marital Disqualification

by Nancy Van Tine | Burns & Levinson LLP on 4/15/2013

I got caught this April Fools’ Day by a very funny and elaborate April Fools’ prank by my partner Shep Davidson, co-author with Renee Inomata of The In-House Advisor blog. It made me think about a real evidentiary...more

Avoid Getting Between A Rock And A Hard Place: Don’t Become A Client’s Surrogate In Communicating With The Government

by David F. Axelrod, Adam M. Galat | Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP on 4/9/2013

Sometimes, even seemingly innocuous acts can cause intractable problems. In one recent tax case, United States v. Matsa, S.D. Ohio No. 09-297, 2010 WL 117548 (Oct. 19, 2010), a simple letter from an attorney to the government...more

Patton Boggs Reinsurance Newsletter - March 2013: A Brief Review of Reinsurance Trends in 2012: Disqualification of Counsel

by Patton Boggs LLP on 3/22/2013

As we observed in last year's reinsurance review, 2011 was marked by a notable amount of litigation over the disqualification of counsel. At that time, it appeared that disqualification of counsel was one of the few areas of...more

Patton Boggs Reinsurance Newsletter- March 2013: Wisconsin Federal Court Remands Arbitration Counsel Disqualification Action to...

by Patton Boggs LLP on 3/11/2013

The popularity of attorney disqualification applications in reinsurance disputes continues with this dispute venued in Wisconsin. Several reinsurance contracts were entered into, all of which had arbitration provisions. The...more

Reinsurance Redux - January 2013

by Braden A. Borger, Amy S. Kline, Patrick Nugent, Sean T. O'Neill, Brian Simons, Matthew Smith | Saul Ewing LLP on 1/29/2013

In This Issue: Federal Court in Wisconsin Holds That It Lacks Jurisdiction to Address Disqualification of Counsel in Arbitration The United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin declined to...more

Contract Attorney's Conflict Not Grounds For Disqualification

by Natasha Saggar Sheth | Nossaman LLP on 12/13/2012

Originally Published in American Bar Association Litigation News, December 13, 2012. A contract attorney for a plaintiff's firm who had previously represented the defendant in the same case was not "associated" with her...more

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