Litigation Boutique May Be Disqualified for “Egregious” Conflict

Citing a conflict “so egregious that it is unwaivable,” a federal judge in Santa Ana has issued a preliminary ruling disqualifying the recently formed litigation boutique Hueston Hennigan from a multi-million dollar healthcare fraud case that’s been in the headlines for years.

In a 19-page tentative ruling dated Monday, which was circulated among attorneys involved in the case and obtained by Big Law Business, U.S. District Judge Andrew Guilford of the Central District of California wrote that the firm was simultaneously representing a victim and a perpetrator of the same fraud.

In the civil case in front of Guilford, Hueston Hennigan name partner John ...