This week’s New York Business Divorce tells a cautionary tale of a business partnership between a lawyer and his client turned sour, as revealed in a recent decision by Nassau County Acting Supreme Court Justice Thomas Adams in Matter of Gleich (Iceland, Inc.) where the court dismissed a dissolution petition for lack of standing.
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Disqualification of Counsel in Business Divorce Proceedings
By Peter A. Mahler on
Posted in Attorney Disqualification
The rough and tumble of business divorce meets attorney ethics in this week’s New York Business Divorce which highlights a pair of decisions by Justices Elizabeth H. Emerson and Timothy S. Driscoll involving the issue of attorney disqualification in judicial dissolution proceedings of closely held businesses.
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