Judge In Snowflake MDL Won’t Disqualify Counsel For AT&T In Separate Privacy MDL

( March 20, 2025, 8:03 AM EDT) -- BUTTE, Mont. — The co-lead counsel in a multidistrict litigation over data breaches experienced by a data storage firm “had an ethical duty” to inform him of a potential conflict of interest with another attorney representing plaintiffs against AT&T Inc., a Montana federal judge said; however, in light of procedural and court-ordered safeguards, he declined to disqualify the attorney, who is also representing plaintiffs in another MDL over a different data breach also involving AT&T....