Legal Opinion
MMR/Wallace Power & Industrial, Inc. v. Thames Associates
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided February 15, 1991No. Civ. H-89-75 (EBB)PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RULING ON PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO DISQUALIFY COUNSEL
ELLEN B. BURNS, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff, MMR/Wallace, (“MMR”), commenced the underlying lawsuit on February 8, 1989 alleging, inter alia, that defendant, Thames Associates, (“Thames”), had breached the terms of its construction contract with plaintiff. MMR has now moved to disqualify Thames’ counsel Matthew Forstadt and the firm, Schatz & Schatz, Ribicoff & Kotkin, (the “Schatz firm”), on the grounds that Forstadt made unauthorized ex parte contact with Richard Willett, a “confidential former employee” of MMR and an “irreplaceable member of…
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