Mailer v. Mailer

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the public nature of the information conveyed did not merit disqualification of later counsel in the same matter
• whether a client has paid an attorney “a fee is not conclusive as to the existence of [an] attorney-client relationship”
• information regarding the plaintiffs financial position was already known by defendant, hence there could be no compromising disclosure
• award of rehabilitative alimony appropriate where the judge properly weighed the statutory factors against detailed findings of fact
• where lawyer was not disqualified by conflict because information learned in one hour interview with plaintiff was matter of public record and not used against plaintiff at trial
• no attorney-client relationship where it was unlikely that confidential information was exchanged

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

35 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Chase Precast v. JOHN J. PAONESSA CO., COMMONWEALTH
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-02-20· cited 57×
• Fechtor v. Fechtor
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1989-02-14· cited 55×
• Bays v. Theran
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-09-23· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Goldman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-07-29· cited 48×
• Knights of Columbus Federal Credit Union v. Salisbury
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1985-01-22· cited 36×
• Green v. Montgomery County, Ala.
  M.D. Alabama· 1992-01-27· cited 31×
• Smaland Beach Ass'n v. Genova
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-01-05· cited 27×
• Derrickson v. Derrickson
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1988-04-29· cited 21×
• Freedman v. Freedman
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2000-06-27· cited 18×
• Slade v. Ormsby
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2007-07-11· cited 18×
• DiLuzio v. United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-02-16· cited 17×
• Adlakha v. Adlakha
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2006-03-31· cited 14×
• Steinert v. Steinert
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-12-04· cited 14×
• Marr v. Back Bay Architectural Commission
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-03-25· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Morgan RV Resorts, LLC
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2013-07-09· cited 11×
• DeLoury v. Deloury
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1986-08-01· cited 10×
• Guardianship of Hocker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-07-10· cited 9×
• Spenlinhauer v. Spencer Press, Inc.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-12-28· cited 7×
• Merola v. Exergen Corp.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1995-04-26· cited 5×
• Rodriguez v. Montalvo
  D. Massachusetts· 2004-01-12· cited 4×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hull v. Celanese Corp.
  Second Circuit· 1975-03-26· cited 238×
• Rice v. Rice
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-04-14· cited 136×
• Reardon v. Marlayne, Inc.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1980-07-17· cited 87×
• Schrottman v. Barnicle
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-06-29· cited 75×
• Ross v. Ross
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-01-11· cited 74×
• Cormier v. Carty
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-08-01· cited 66×
• Alvin W. Fullmer v. George Harper, Individually and as President
  Tenth Circuit· 1975-06-10· cited 55×
• McCourt Co., Inc. v. FPC Properties, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-05-06· cited 29×
• Atwood v. First National Bank of Boston
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-12-13· cited 7×
• Lemelson v. Synergistics Research Corp.
  S.D. New York· 1981-01-08· cited 6×