Coke v. Equity Residential Properties Trust

The defendant, Equity Residential Properties Trust (Equity), seeks interlocutory review of an order entered *512by a judge in the Superior Court to the effect that Mass. R. Prof. C. 1.7, 426 Mass. 1330 (1998),2 governing conflicts of interest does not mandate the disqualification of counsel for the plaintiffs, where the plaintiffs’ counsel of record, Mark A. Berthiaume, became a member of the law firm Seyfarth Shaw (Seyfarth), which at the time acted as counsel for Equity in other matters. Pursuant to G. L. c. 231, § 118, Equity petitioned a single justice of the Appeals Court for interlocutory…