SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. v. WILEY

No. 95-6138.

113 F.3d 1553 (1997)

SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGIES, INC., a Delaware corporation, Plaintiff-Counterclaim-Defendant-Appellant, v. G. Dan WILEY; Robert A. Fergusson; Donald Bahouth, Defendants-Counterclaim-Plaintiffs-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 5, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Champ Lyons, Jr., Helmsing, Lyons, Sims & Leach, Mobile, AL, John H. Pickering, Alex E. Rogers and A. Stephen Hut, Jr., Washington, DC, for Appellants.

H. William Wadsden, Rachel Sanders-Cochran, Donald F. Pierce, Forrest S. Latta, Pierce, Ledyard, Latta & Wasden, P.C.; Orrin K. Ames, III, P. Russel Myles, Jerry A. McDowell, Hand, Arendall, L.L.C.; James E. Atchison, G. Dan Wiley, Hess & Atchison; William B. Jackson, II and Donald Bahouth, Mobile, AL, for Appellees.

Before BIRCH and CARNES, Circuit Judges, and MICHAEL, Senior District Judge.


BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

The issue in this appeal is the standard that governs a district court's decision to deny a party's motion on behalf of a non-resident attorney for admission pro hac vice. The district court denied admission pro hac vice to plaintiff's counsel, even though it did not find that the attorney had violated any specific ethical rules. We hold that binding circuit precedent requires a showing of unethical conduct of such a nature as to...

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