Helen C. Greene v. Theodore J. Greene

Summary

The New York Court of Appeals held that the law firm Eaton, Van Winkle, Greenspoon & Grutman must be disqualified from representing plaintiff Helen Greene because the firm's members, former partners of the defendant firm, have a direct financial and fiduciary interest in the litigation. The Court affirmed the disqualification despite the plaintiff's consent, and a concurring opinion agreed with the result but offered a different analytical basis.