Bennett Silvershein Associates v. Furman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “[mjotions to disqualify opposing counsel are viewed with disfavor in this Circuit because they are ‘often interposed for tactical reasons’ ”
• relying on cases evaluating former-client conflicts to resolve a disqualification motion predicated on a prospective-client relationship
• “the party seeking disqualification must carry a ‘heavy burden,’ and must meet a ‘high standard of proof before a lawyer is disqualified” (citations omitted)
• “an earlier consultation [is] sufficiently related to a later case to warrant disqualification [if] the information the client disclosed in that earlier consultation is useful in the later case” and “[finformation can be useful even if the two matters are not identical”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).