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HÉLIE v. McDERMOTT

56 A.D.3d 398 (2008)

MARC HÉLIE, Respondent, v. McDERMOTT, WILL & EMERY et al., Respondents. GRAMERCY FINANCIAL GROUP, LLC, Non-party Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

November 25, 2008.

Code of Professional Responsibility DR 4-101 (c) (22 NYCRR 1200.19 [c]) provides: "A lawyer may reveal: . . . (4) Confidences or secrets necessary . . . to defend the lawyer . . . against an accusation of wrongful conduct." We decline to make defendants' invocation of this rule dependent on plaintiff's demonstration of a prima facie case of defendants' liability (see Justice Stallman's later ruling on a related matter in...

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