Legal Opinion
Wall Street Associates v. Brodsky
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 21, 1996PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, *302New York County (Charles Ramos, J.), entered January 4,1996, which granted defendant Reid & Priest’s motion to disqualify plaintiff’s attorney, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The IAS Court properly granted, without an evidentiary hearing, defendant’s timely motion to disqualify plaintiff’s attorney from representing plaintiff in the instant malpractice action on the ground of conflict of interest. Defendant met its burden of establishing a substantial relationship between the issues in the instant malpractice litigation and the subject matter of the prior…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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