The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has upheld a decision to impose sanctions totaling more than $270,000 against Boies, Schiller & Flexner for taking a case with a client conflict.

Boies Schiller represented Madison 92nd Street Associates, which owned an Upper East Side hotel, against a former client, Host Hotels & Resorts Inc., a real estate investment trust, in a January 2013 lawsuit.