{"id":2416,"date":"2024-08-27T20:08:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ex-holland-knight-attorney-improperly-accessed-client-file-to-gain-upper-hand-in-divorce-proceedings-suit-alleges\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T20:08:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:08:07","slug":"ex-holland-knight-attorney-improperly-accessed-client-file-to-gain-upper-hand-in-divorce-proceedings-suit-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ex-holland-knight-attorney-improperly-accessed-client-file-to-gain-upper-hand-in-divorce-proceedings-suit-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Holland &#038; Knight Attorney Improperly Accessed Client File to Gain Upper Hand in Divorce Proceedings, Suit Alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Holland &amp; Knight is being sued in Pennsylvania state court by a client for failing to flag a conflict of interest and safeguard confidential client information after one of the firm\u2019s attorneys improperly accessed a client file to gain an advantage during his personal divorce proceedings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The suit, filed in Philadelphia\u2019s Court of Common Pleas on Aug. 20, claims that as a result of Holland &amp; Knight\u2019s failure to detect a potential conflict of interest between then-partner Patrick McCabe and\u00a0a new firm client, McCabe\u2019s soon-to-be-ex-wife\u2019s employer Philadelphia-based personal injury firm Fritz\u00a0&amp; Bianculli, McCabe and two other firm employees accessed Fritz and Bianculli\u2019s confidential information multiple times from July 2022 to early 2024, violating client confidentiality protections.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holland &amp; Knight is being sued in Pennsylvania state court by a client for failing to flag a conflict of interest and safeguard confidential client information after one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3184,1796,1585,336,41,3182,1004,3185,3187,3183,2675,3188,339,3186],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-accessed","tag-alleges","tag-attorney","tag-client","tag-divorce","tag-exholland","tag-file","tag-gain","tag-hand","tag-improperly","tag-knight","tag-proceedings","tag-suit","tag-upper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}