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An Attorney's Ethical Obligations to the Client in Third-Party Funded Litigation

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The landscape of legal practice has significantly changed due to the proliferation of third-party litigation funding, a financial mechanism that provides capital to plaintiffs, including patent owners, in exchange for an...more

Proskauer - New England IP Blog

Court Disqualifies Law Firm in Patent Suit, Finding No Quick Fix for Rule 1.7 Violation

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Chief Judge Saris in the District of Massachusetts recently granted a motion to disqualify the Sunstein law firm from representing Altova in a patent suit against Syncro Soft, upon finding that the conflict was foreseeable...more

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No TKO: California Judge Refuses to Disqualify Counsel from Patent Litigation

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Last week, a federal judge in California denied the plaintiff’s motions to disqualify the defendant’s counsel, finding that the firm’s former representation of the plaintiff was not sufficiently recent, substantial, or...more

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