Byington v. City of Boston

The plaintiff, whose husband was, until March 20, 1990, chief of litigation in the city’s law department, sued the city on August 25, 1993, for injuries she incurred two months before stepping from a curb into a crosswalk at the corner of Stuart and Clarendon Streets. She is represented by Mr. J. Daniel Lindley, an associate in her husband’s law firm. She appeals from an order disqualifying Mr. Lindley as her counsel “on the ground that [his] continued representation of [the] plaintiff would ‘taint the legal system,’ see Borman v. Borman, 378 Mass. 775 [,788] (1979), in light of both the…