What You Need to Know

• Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney can continue to represent vending machine company RDS Vending in an ongoing contract dispute, the Superior Court ruled.
• Defendant and former RDS president Alan Simons attempted to disqualify Buchanan from the dispute on two separate occasions.
• Simons is currently being represented by George Bochetto of Philadelphia's Bochetto & Lentz.

Pittsburgh-headquartered firm Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney can continue to represent a vending machine business client in an employment contract dispute with the business’ former president, a Pennsylvania Superior Court panel decided on Friday, despite contentions by the defendant that the firm has a conflict of interest.

The Sept. 30 appellate decision comes 10 months after a trial court denied a motion by defendant Alan Simons, the former president of RDS Vending, to disqualify Buchanan from representing his former RDS business partner John Brown in a dispute over Simons’ employment contract from 2019.

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