Rivera v. Lutheran Medical Center

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for employment discrimination in violation of the New York State Human Rights Law, the nonparty Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Ambrosio, J), dated October 16, 2008, as, upon determining that it violated former Code of Professional Responsibility DR 2-103 (a) (1) (22 NYCRR 1200.8 [a] [1]), now Rules of Professional Conduct (22 NYCRR 1200.0) rule 7.3, granted that branch of the plaintiff’s motion which was to disqualify it from representing certain witnesses…