California Court of Appeal

An attorney's presumed possession of confidential information concerning a former client should not automatically cause the attorney's former firm to be vicariously disqualified where the evidence establishes that no one other than the departed attorney had dealings with the client.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/07/2005
• Published 01/07/2005

Judges

• CURRY, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman Machtinger & Kinsella, Dale F. Kinsella, Alan R. Kossoff and Ricardo P. Cestero, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Adam Levin, Patricia Benson, Courtney Smith and Richard B. Sheldon, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Respondents.