Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, a major New Jersey law firm that withdrew from representing one side in a lawsuit just before oral argument on whether it had a disqualifying conflict of interest, still appears to have one, a state appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
The firm’s representation of the landlord and a tenant in the commercial lease that lay at the heart of the lawsuit “presented prima facie evidence of a concurrent conflict of interest, waivable only by informed written consent, which has never been presented,” the court said in Comando v. Nugiel.
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