New Jersey Can Keep Law Firm Despite Conflict of Interest Claim

Brown & Connery LLP can continue defending New Jersey in an employment retaliation case despite a claim that the indictment of one of the firm’s lawyers required the firm’s disqualification, a New Jersey appellate court said Friday.

The law firm can represent New Jersey in the suit Penelope Mauer filed because she didn’t show that the state’s now-dismissed indictment of Brown & Connery attorney William Tambussi created a positional conflict of interest, the Superior Court Appellate Division’s three-judge panel concluded, affirming a trial court decision.

A positional conflict can arise from an attorney’s advocacy of positions that conflict with ...