Herrick, Feinstein filed a motion for disqualification of the Pennsylvania-based Alan L. Frank Associates from representing a party in a legal malpractice suit originated in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that is now in pending arbitration.

The Frank firm allegedly worked as counsel for respondents whose interests are adverse to each other—one sued the other for malpractice in the past and the other was a former law partner of the petitioner.