Holland & Knight is being sued in Pennsylvania state court by a client for failing to flag a conflict of interest and safeguard confidential client information after one of the firm’s attorneys improperly accessed a client file to gain an advantage during his personal divorce proceedings.
The suit, filed in Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas on Aug. 20, claims that as a result of Holland & Knight’s failure to detect a potential conflict of interest between then-partner Patrick McCabe and a new firm client, McCabe’s soon-to-be-ex-wife’s employer Philadelphia-based personal injury firm Fritz and Bianculli, McCabe and two other firm employees accessed Fritz and Bianculli’s confidential information multiple times from July 2022 to early 2024, violating client confidentiality protections.
