Legal Opinion
Staff Mgmt. Grp. LLC v. Feltman (In re Corporate Res. Servs., Inc.)
District Court, S.D. Illinois
Decided January 25, 2019No. 15-12329 (MG); No. 17-CV-8254 (RA)PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Ronnie Abrams, United States District Judge *437This appeal concerns whether lawyers for two defendants in this bankruptcy action, A. Mitchell Greene and the law firm Robinson Brog, should be disqualified. The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York answered this question in the affirmative, concluding that counsel's pecuniary interest in a client, and the possibility that Greene would be called to testify against his clients' interests, violated New York Rules of Professional Conduct 1.8(i), 1.10(a), and 3.7.
In granting the Trustee's motion for disqualification, the…
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