A Long Island lawyer and his firm have been disqualified from representing a town in a condemnation proceeding after a Brooklyn appellate panel determined the attorney previously advised the town's adversaries in "substantially related" matters.
Regardless of whether or not Saul Fenchel "actually obtained and disseminated confidential information in connection with his former representation of the appellants, they are 'entitled to freedom from apprehension and to certainty that [their] interests will not be prejudiced'" due to Fenchel's representation of the town in related condemnation proceedings, the Appellate Division, Second Department, ruled Wednesday in Matter of Town of Oyster Bay v. 55 Motor Ave., 2012-08448.
