The Appellate Division, First Department, has ruled against attorney disqualification in two recent Commercial Division appeals, upholding one decision blocking a firm’s removal from a case and reversing another favoring removal.

In a case last month, a unanimous panel upheld a ruling that Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton should not be disqualified from representing a nominal defendant in Stilwell Value Partners v. Cavanaugh, 6530112011.