About 13 months before Alston & Bird partner Michael L. Brown filed a notice of appearance in DeKalb County Superior Court that he would defend a former DeKalb school superintendent against criminal racketeering charges, the county hired a subsidiary of Parsons Corp. to oversee its school construction program.

That deal between DeKalb schools and Parsons came back to haunt Alston on Oct. 1 when DeKalb Superior Court Judge Cynthia J. Becker disqualified Alston from representing the ex-superintendent because Alston already had a client relationship with Parsons.

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