MSG says the "New York Rule of Skilled Conduct" prohibits contact between the plaintiff shareholders' legal professionals and its staff beneath the circumstances.
Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports activities
They’re hopefully not Knicks or Rangers followers.
Madison Sq. Backyard is banning legal professionals concerned in litigation over the merger of its leisure group and networks from attending occasions at MSG till the fits are over, in line with letters despatched to at the very least two concerned corporations final week.
MSG says the “New York Rule of Skilled Conduct” prohibits contact between the plaintiff shareholders’ legal professionals and its staff beneath the circumstances.
The ban additionally extends to different MSG venues — Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, the Beacon Theater, the Hulu Theater at MSG and The Chicago Theater — the letters mentioned.
“Due to the adversarial nature inherent in litigation proceedings, and due to the potential for contact with the corporate’s staff and disclosure exterior correct litigation discovery channels that would outcome from the presence of any of your agency’s legal professionals on the firm’s venues, neither you, nor some other legal professional employed at your agency, could enter the corporate’s venues,” in-house MSG lawyer Hal Weidenfeld wrote in a single such discover obtained by The Publish.
“Do you have to try to enter or in any other case receive entry to any of the MSG venues, [MSG] will take applicable steps to implement this discover,” Weidenfeld added. “We belief that won't be needed and that you simply and your colleagues will respect this discover.”
No less than among the plaintiff legal professionals concerned within the fits had been nonplussed.
“We’re a agency stuffed with Celtics followers,” one of many legal professionals instructed Reuters. “If we wish to watch the Knicks lose, it’s much more enjoyable to see it occur at TD Backyard.”
One other lawyer sniffed, “Everybody in my agency is a fan of both Philly or San Francisco groups, so I doubt anybody will care about being banned from Madison Sq. Backyard.’’
A spokesperson mentioned MSG “has each a proper and an obligation to guard itself throughout litigation procedures.”
“With that in thoughts, we've instituted a coverage that precludes attorneys from corporations engaged in litigation in opposition to the corporate from attending occasions at our Venues till that litigation has been resolved,” the assertion mentioned. “Whereas we perceive this might be disappointing to some people, we can't ignore the truth that litigation creates an inherently adversarial surroundings, and an ancillary consequence of that's our want to guard in opposition to improper disclosure and discovery.”
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