Johanson Resources, Inc. v. La Vallee

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Moynihan, Jr., J.), entered June 26, 2001 in Essex County, which, inter alia, granted defendant John T. Wilkins’ motion to disqualify attorney Livingston Hatch.

This appeal has its genesis in a business relationship gone *660awry between Robert La Vallee and N. Eric Johanson, personally and as president of three corporations (hereinafter collectively referred to as Johanson). Johanson owns hundreds of acres of forest land in a tricounty region in northern New York on which he harvests and sells timber. La Vallee is an experienced logger who was hired by…