Jamie v. Jamie
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Marylin Diamond, J.), entered September 17, 2002, which, insofar as appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied defendant’s motion to disqualify the law firm representing plaintiffs herein, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
The four-year interval between the law firm’s last services rendered to plaintiff partnership, in which defendant is a partner, and the commencement of this action refutes defendant’s contention that the law firm has an ongoing attorney-client relationship with the partnership and thus owes him a duty of undivided loyalty (cf.…
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