An Essex County judge has disqualified McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter on conflict grounds from defending the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in a whistleblower suit and ordered the Morristown firm to disgorge legal fees since the case began two years ago.
Superior Court Judge Claude Coleman found, after an Oct. 16 hearing, that the firm and partner Walter Timpone not only had acted as plaintiff Ellen Casey’s lawyer in a past matter but had been less than straightforward about it in the present one.
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