Blank Rome has been kicked off a false claims suit against medical technology company Boston Scientific based on its hire of a former in-house attorney for the defendant, even though the attorney was seconded to a different firm client.
U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo of the District of New Jersey reversed a magistrate judge’s ruling and disqualified the firm in a published opinion issued Nov. 30—taking on the question, as yet unanswered by the New Jersey Supreme Court, of what makes an attorney a temporary one.
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