In response to allegations of client conflict in the gaming industry, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott contends that former client Pace-O-Matic mischaracterized its relationship in a complaint filed Tuesday in Pennsylvania federal court, and that the ex-client consented to its representation of Parx Casino.

Pace-O-Matic alleged that even as its lawyers at Eckert Seamans defended the company’s devices on the grounds that they are legal games of skill, the firm was simultaneously arguing on behalf of Parx Casino that the same games should be outlawed as illegal gambling devices.