A New Jersey appeals court disqualified a law firm from counseling a man suing his ex-wife because one of the firm’s attorneys had represented the ex-wife in a related matter.
J.G.S. was accused of abusing one of his children, and the state division of child protection and permanency began an investigation in 2017. His ex-wife, L.M.S., hired attorneys at ,Williams Law Group, including Elizabeth D. Burke, to represent her throughout the investigation.
Soon after, Burke left Williams Law Group to join Ziegler, Zemsky & Resnick, which J.G.S. then hired in 2018 for a defamation suit he filed against his ex ...
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