Lawyers representing the city of Cleveland asked a federal judge Wednesday to disqualify the legal team representing a former fire official who claims in a lawsuit that he was improperly passed over for promotion.
The lawyers accused the Chandra Law Firm of violating the Ohio Rules of Professional Conduct for lawyers by improperly obtaining evidence for former Battalion Chief Sean DeCrane's lawsuit. Those ethical violations are so severe, their motion states, that the court must disqualify the lawyers and suppress the statements they collected, their motion states.
The Chandra Law Firm, the founder of which is former city law director Subodh Chandra, says it can prove that the allegations in the court filing are not true.