Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 98,017 Carl R. Duncan, on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.

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• describing, in the civil disqualification context, the adverse consequences of allowing an attorney to reveal the confidences of his former client
• vacating district court's order granting defendant's motion to disqualify plaintiff's lawyer for want of sufficient evidence that lawyer's current representation of plaintiff substantially related to the lawyer's former representation of defendant
• vacating disqualification order when movant showed “no more than a surface and superficial connection between the matters”
• “the integrity of the judicial system would be sullied if courts tolerated such abuses by those who profess and owe undivided loyalty to their clients”
• \the integrity of the judicial system would be sullied if courts tolerated such abuses by those who profess and owe undivided loyalty to their clients\

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