A defendant in a business dispute won disqualification of a codefendant’s attorney on conflict-of-interest grounds but failed to get the plaintiff’s attorney disqualified on the same grounds.
Ruling earlier this month in Tricarico v. Baer, 31988-2013, Justice Emily Pines of the Suffolk County Commerical Division, found a conflict existed between an individual defendant and a corporate codefendant, where the attorney for the individual represents the corporate entity in a simultaneous unconnected tort lawsuit.
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