DocketNumber: No. CV98-0578832-S
Citation Numbers: 1998 Conn. Super. Ct. 10665
Judges: DEVLIN, J.
Filed Date: 8/7/1998
Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 4/18/2021
Gerald P. Hendrick, Esq., a member of the Edwards Angell law firm, is a former general counsel for H.P. Hood, Inc. Ryan claims that Hendrick's former attorney-client relationship with H.P. Hood, Inc., should work a disqualification of him and his firm from representing NED in this case.
A prerequisite to disqualification of counsel is the requirement that an attorney-client relationship existed between the party moving for disqualification and the lawyer in question.Goldenberg v. Corporate Air, Inc.,
In the present case, Ryan does not claim to have had an attorney-client relationship with Attorney Hendrick, but rather claims that Attorney Hendrick's relationship with H.D. Hood, Inc., necessitates disqualification. Attorney Hendrick's former relationship with H.D. Hood, Inc., ended over thirteen years ago and is too attenuated to mandate his disqualification in this lawsuit against Ryan.
Since Ryan has not established an attorney-client relationship with Attorney Hendrick, the motion for disqualification must be denied.
So Ordered at Hartford, Connecticut this 7th day of August, 1998.
Devlin, J.
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