A judge has refused to dismiss parts of a legal malpractice suit brought by an ex-client of Blank Rome who claims the law firm threw her “under the bus” when it simultaneously represented ex-husband’s employer, Morgan Stanley, during her divorce.

Blank Rome matrimonial partners Norman Heller and Dylan Mitchell represented Kristina Armstrong against her ex-husband, Michael Armstrong. She claims the firm never told her it was also representing her husband’s then-employer, Morgan Stanley, in lucrative transactions—even when Michael was on the company’s management committee—and the firm did not act in her best interests.

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