A federal District Court in Pennsylvania has refused to disqualify an attorney who previously served briefly as general counsel and a member of the board of directors of a nonprofit foundation from representing a defendant in a defamation suit brought by the foundation. The Court has concluded that the matters on which the attorney previously gave advice were not the same or substantially related to the defamation case. Mehendra Kumar Trivedi and the Trivedi Foundation sued a former Penn State research assistant for defamation and tortious interference with business relationships based on two online publications and an email that stated Trivedi had sexually abused a teenager. Attorney James...