Becker v. Perla

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Werner Kornreich, J.), entered on or about March 12, 2014, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, granted defendants’ motion to disqualify plaintiffs’ counsel and sua sponte ordered that plaintiff Ronny Becker could not be represented by the same counsel as the other plaintiffs, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the motion to disqualify denied, and the sua sponte order vacated.

Although plaintiffs concede that their lawyer represented some of the defendants in a prior matter, and that the parties’ interests are…