I’m not sure how having a personal relationship with co-counsel merits disqualification, but I know how an insurance defense lawyer using your attorney client communications from a previous case in which he represented you causes a serious problem.

Sarah Stratemeyer’s motion to disqualify Cole Scott from the case alleges that the firm has a conflict because attorney John Chiocca represented Stratemeyer at the outset of a lawsuit related to a 2015 accident that has become a “focal point” for the defense in her current suit involving a crash in 2019 that she alleges left her suffering from a brain injury.

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