Focus (Forum & Focus)
Aug. 7, 2007
Playbook Disqualification
Focus Column - By Alana Hoffman and Marc Poster - California courts are searching for the right balance in deciding when counsel can be disqualified for knowing too much about the opposition's strategy.
By Alana Hoffman and Marc Poster
When an attorney tries to represent a current client in a matter against a former client, the former client often moves to disqualify the attorney based on the former representation. The former client may say, for example, that the attorney has confidential factual information from the former representation that could be used against it in the current matter. Such a claim likely wi...
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