Stop-And-Frisk Judge Removed, Fights Back
Notwithstanding general public opinion of attorney ethics, most people (including attorneys) believe that an attorney cannot dump a client in the middle of litigation to represent the other side. However, attorneys in the...more
Lynn v. George (2017) 2017 Cal. App. LEXIS 817 - Brief Summary - The California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District held in an action arising from an alleged partnership for buying and selling real property that...more
Conflict of Interest – Current Clients – Duty of Care with Respect to Unrelated Matters - Oakland Police & Fire Retirement System, et al. v. Mayer Brown, LLP, 861 F.3d 644 (7th Cir. 2017) - Risk Management Issue: Does a...more
Nearly every case focusing on inadvertently disclosed privileged communications (during document productions or at other times) focuses on the privilege waiver implications. However, the stakes can be much higher....more
In a recent decision, Justice Lawrence S. Knipel in the Commercial Division ordered an attorney to comply with a non-party subpoena and disqualified the same attorney from representing her client in the action pursuant to the...more
Disqualification — Substantially Related Matters — Waiver of Conflict by Lack of Diligence in Seeking Disqualification - State of Minnesota, et al v. 3M Company, Hennepin County (Minn.), Court File No. 27-CV-10-28862...more
Conflicts of Interest — Subject Matter Conflicts — Can IP Attorneys Simultaneously Represent Two Clients That Are Prosecuting Patents for Similar Inventions? - Maling v. Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner,...more
Providing a rare glimpse into a Federal Circuit judge’s views on the rules of professional conduct governing conflicts of interest, on February 26, 2016, Federal Circuit Judge William Bryson, sitting as a trial judge, denied...more
The Delaware court of chancery held recently that control over a target company’s attorney-client privileged communications, including communications between the target company’s counsel and its pre-merger stockholders,...more