Serody v. Serody

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing concerns of added expense and deprivation of counsel of choice
• affirming disqualification of lawyer where intimately involved in events at issue in alimony and child support action
• observing, in a case involving a lower court’s sua sponte disqualification of a defendant’s lawyer, that “[s]izing up the potential for prejudice in a particular case and the degree of that prejudice involves exercise of discretion by the trial judge”
• “The need for disqualification is greatest where the lawyer is most intimately involved in the events at issue”
• “Where, as here, it is opposing counsel who seeks disqualification, we must ‘be alert that the Canons of Ethics are not brandished for tactical advantage’ ”
• on motion to disqualify, “[sjizing up the potential for prejudice in a particular case and the degree of that prejudice involves exercise of discretion by the trial judge”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).