In recent court actions involving attorneys, the government successfully moved to disqualify counsel. In one, counsel will be required to testify in a criminal action against his client; in the other, the client dismissed the government-targeted counsel rather than fight the disqualification. In a third, the Second Circuit affirmed two attorneys’ convictions of a conspiracy to defraud and held it was not necessary to prove intent – only that the consequences of the actions be reasonably foreseeable. In the fourth case, the court held, based upon the totality of the circumstances, that the New York Long Arm Statute applied to an attorney who had never physically entered New York during his representation of his Rhode Island client following a New York accident.
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