Woodson v. Mendon Leasing Corp.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Howard Silver, J.), entered on or about April 29, 1998, which granted plaintiffs’ motion to disqualify the firm of Berger Stern & Webb from representing defendant Mendon Leasing Corp. and ordered an in camera inspection of the disqualified attorneys’ files prior to their transfer to another firm, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The motion court properly granted the motion for disqualification based on a conflict of interest. Counsel to defendant Mendon Leasing, the lessor of the truck involved in the accident in which the infant plaintiff was injured, had…