07/31/2007
California District Court Orders Firm Disqualified and Rejects Rebuttable Presumption of Vicarious Disqualification Despite Screening Procedures
Lucent Technologies, Inc. v. Gateway, Inc. et al., 2007 WL 1461406 (S.D. Cal 2007)
Brief Summary
The court granted a motion to disqualify and refused to allow the disqualified firm to rebut the presumption of shared confidences when an attorney who worked extensively on one side of a case switched firms and went to work for the firm representing the other side.
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