LIBERTY v. BENNETT

Docket: Cum-11-433

46 A.3d 1141 (2012)

2012 ME 81

Scott A. LIBERTY v. Jeffrey BENNETT et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: June 21, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Branson, Esq. , Branson Law Office, P.A., Portland, for appellant Scott A. Liberty.

Martha C. Gaythwaite, Esq. (orally), and F. David Walker, IV, Esq. , Friedman Gaythwaite Wolf & Leavitt, Portland, for appellee Jeffrey Bennett.

William J. Kelleher, Esq. , Dubord, Bernier & Stevens, Waterville, argued, for appellant Scott A. Liberty.

Panel: ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, and GORMAN, JJ.


ALEXANDER, J.

[¶ 1] Scott A. Liberty appeals from an interlocutory order entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Marden, J.) denying his motion to reconsider his motion to disqualify attorney Martha Gaythwaite from representing Jeffrey Bennett. Liberty contends that Gaythwaite should be disqualified because she previously represented Liberty's former attorney, David Van Dyke, in a legal malpractice action brought by Liberty. Because Liberty has...

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