EUROCOM, SA v. Mahoney, Cohen & Co.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HAIGHT, District Judge:

Defendant originally moved pursuant to Rule 14(a), F.R.Civ.P., for leave to add the-firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton (“Cleary, Gottlieb”), attorneys for plaintiff, as third-party defendants. Plaintiff and Cleary, Gottlieb resisted that motion. As the arguments developed, defendant’s motion became transformed, at least in the alternative, into a motion that Cleary, Gottlieb be disqualified from representing plaintiff, pursuant to Code of Professional Responsibility, Appendix to the Judiciary Law, 29 McKinney’s Consol. Laws of New…