Opinion
2012 Civ. 2302 (AMD)(MDG)
03-23-2016
CONCORD FARMS, INC. AND CONCORD FARMS, INC., d/b/a SKYLINE SALES, Plaintiffs, v. SUN EAST TRADING CORP., et. al., Defendants
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER DONNELLY, District Judge.
When Judge Go permitted Dai & Associates to withdraw from representing the defendants in this case on June 18, 2015, she specifically ordered them to "promptly transmit the client files to defendants or their new counsel upon request." (ECF 66, at 2.) On December 15, 2015, attorney William X. Zou entered an appearance on behalf of individual defendants Jei Chen, Jian Cong Zhang, and Xue Ming Zhang. (ECF 70, 71, 72.) At a court conference today, Mr. Zou informed me that he had not yet received the case files from prior counsel, despite several requests.
The prior counsel for the defendants in this action, Jacob Y. Chen and Dawei Gongsun of Dai & Associates, P.C., are hereby ordered immediately to turn over their case files in Concord Farms, Inc. v. Sun East Trading Corp., 1:12-cv-02302 (AMD) (MDG), to new counsel William X. Zou at the law offices of Xianfeng Zou, 136-20 38th Avenue, Suite 10D, Flushing, NY 11354. Prior counsel at Dai & Associates must either deliver the case files to Mr. Chen or have them available for pickup by close of business tomorrow, March 24, 2016, at the latest.
SO ORDERED.
s/Ann M. Donnelly
Ann M. Donnelly
United States District Judge Dated: Brooklyn, New York
March 23, 2016