Court of Appeals of New York

In case arising from a strategic alliance agreement between a discount brokerage and a financial software maker, reversal of order disqualifying defendant's attorneys from the case, requiring destruction of all notes from interview with former employee of plaintiff, and enjoining defense counsel from communicating the information they learned during the interview to others, is affirmed as disqualification of defense counsel is not warranted where measures were taken to steer clear of privileged or confidential information and, thus, adversary counsel may conduct ex parte interviews of an opposing party's former employee.

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• Decided 05/08/2007
• Published 05/08/2007

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