A split district ethics committee has thrown out charges against two Mercer County lawyers who handled the divorce of a client’s chief executive officer and billed their services to the client under the heading “estate planning.”
The District IIIB Ethics Committee found that the client, Memorial Hospital of Salem County, had not proved by clear and convincing evidence that attorneys Richard Pinto and John Heher acted without its consent, nor that their representation of CEO J. Michael Galvin Jr. was adverse to the hospital.
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