The Appellate Division, First Department, overruled a lower court’s disqualification of an attorney in a divorce case Tuesday, saying the fact the lawyer was co-counsel on an unrelated matter with an attorney from the opposing firm does not warrant disqualification.
A unanimous panel said disqualification of Raunak Kothari, a solo practitioner, “would mean that attorneys from different firms could never work together—even on a single case—without having the conflicts of interest of each firm imputed to the other.”
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