Assertion: disqualification | /r/CapableOf | preserve confidential information
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text: (concluding that, because the lawyer had formerly represented clients during the government’s investigation, and because those former clients were now expected to be government witnesses during the trial, the district court correctly “determined that fairness, both to Moscony and to the witnesses, dictated the disqualification of” the lawyer’s firm in part because cross-examination of the former clients “if foregone (which Moscony did not offer to do) would have deprived Moscony of his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel (which Moscony did not offer to waive), and if pursued would have violated ethical standards regarding privileged communications (which the witnesses would not ‘waive’ even if they could)”); Gary T. Lowenthal, Successive Representation by Criminal Lawyers, 93 Yale L.J. 1, 56 (1983) (“When the former client of defense counsel testifying for the government desires disqualification to preserve confidential information, the government’s interest in seeking disqualification seems strongest.