A week after the government indicated it would move to disqualify counsel representing Yanping "Yvette" Wang, a Chinese national accused of working with Steve Bannon ally Ho Wan Kwok to perpetuate a $1 billion fraud, federal prosecutors have filed a memo supporting the motion to disqualify on the grounds the attorney had previously investigated Kwok.
A federal judge in Dallas on Monday sanctioned three Southwest Airlines Co. attorneys for failing to comply with a court order after the airline lost a religious bias suit, ordering them to attend "training on religious freedom" given by Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal organization.
Citing a risk of "being sued by its own attorneys," a Missouri-based private equity firm in the midst of a real estate transaction spat is asking an Arizona court to disqualify Greenberg Traurig LLP from representing the opposing party in the matter, saying it had already engaged its attorneys for a separate "as-of-yet-unfinished" Colorado transaction.
A Connecticut federal judge has been asked to deny early wins in a breach of contract suit brought by a recruiter against Robinson & Cole LLP after both sides asked for early judgment, with the firm arguing the recruiter is willfully misinterpreting the contract, and the recruiter saying the firm is ignoring its plain language.
Weeks after a New York federal judge scuttled a would-be settlement in a proposed wage class action due to questions over class counsel's "competence and integrity" in a separate case, the attorneys have returned to "humbly apologize" to the court, offering to drop their fee bid from 33% to 20%.