Legal Opinion
Harris v. Harris
New York Supreme Court
Decided June 17, 1988PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Ralph Yachnin, J.
THE FACTS
An interesting question of first impression is before the court. It emanates from a bifurcated matrimonial action. At the commencement of the fault ground the attorney for the plaintiff wife moved that Irwin Underweiser, Esq., be excluded from acting as cocounsel to the defendant husband’s attorney. The grounds for this application were that Mr. Underweiser was the husband’s personal and business attorney and he also represented the wife on prior occasions. Thus, it was claimed, he was privy to certain confidential information which would *276unduly…
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- Lipton v. LiptonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1986
- Empire Mutual Insurance v. WestAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1964
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