A former client of two Cozen O’Connor partners has lost his bid to disqualify the firm from representing his adversary in a construction payment dispute, based on his allegations that the firm mishandled conflicts in a lateral hire from Pepper Hamilton.
Henry McNeil had sought to keep Cozen O’Connor from representing E.B. Mahoney Brothers, claiming that the firm gained an unfair advantage for Mahoney when it brought on a group of construction lawyers from Pepper Hamilton. The group included Bruce Ficken and Jeffrey Mullen, who had represented McNeil for more than a year in his arbitration against Mahoney when they were at Pepper Hamilton.
