War of Russia against Ukraine. A residential building damaged by an enemy aircraft in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. (Credit: Drop of Light/Shutterstock.com) 
Jacob Kaplan leaves the Brooklyn Federal court on Feb. 15, 2022. (Photo: Ryland West/ALM) 'Baker McKenzie Should Be Disqualified': Georgia Lawyer Wants to Stop Firm Representing Russian Bank
"A most fundamental obligation of lawyers worldwide is the duty to protect client confidences and, a fortiori, not to deploy a client's confidential information against that client," read a motion for disqualification drafted by Poole Huffman trial attorney Luke Andrews of Tucker.
March 07, 2022 at 09:58 AM
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As pressure builds for Western law firms to break ties with major Russian clients amid the fast-developing conflict in Ukraine, a Georgia law firm is seeking to disqualify an international firm from representing a commercial Russian bank.
Baker McKenzie International partner Jacob M. Kaplan of New York is representing VUZ-Bank JSC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development CB PJSC, in its request to take discovery in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia for use in alleged fraud proceedings in Dubai.
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