BOCA INVESTORS GROUP, INC. v. POTASH

No. 99-204.

728 So.2d 825 (1999)

BOCA INVESTORS GROUP, INC., Petitioner, v. Irwin POTASH, Stanley Cohen, Alexander Brodt, Ray Larsen, Suzanne Bosze, Bruce Youner, Murray Norkin, David Paresky, Ira Ostrow, Joe Slotnick, Arnold Broser, Robert E. Torter and Richard Voell, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

March 24, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richman, Greer, Weil, Brumbaugh, Mirabito & Christensen and Gerald F. Richman and Gary S. Betensky and Joseph F. Hession, Miami, for petitioner.

Shapo, Freedman & Bloom and David A. Freedman; Gilbert A. Haddad, Coral Gables, for respondents.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and GREEN and FLETCHER, JJ.


SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The trial court disqualified the plaintiffs counsel because he held a presuit meeting with representatives of the defendants. The order was entered notwithstanding an unresolved conflict as to whether the meeting was essentially a "job interview" which concerned only the lawyer's abilities to serve as their counsel in the upcoming litigation—which would not require disqualification; or also included discussion of the legal matters involved...

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