LEIBOWITZ v. EIGHTH JUD. DISTRICT COURT

No. 39683.

78 P.3d 515 (2003)

Steven LEIBOWITZ; Thomas Standish; and Ecker & Standish, Chartered, Petitioners, v. THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, in and for the COUNTY OF CLARK, and the Honorable William O. Voy, District Judge, Family Court Division, Respondents, and Deena Leibowitz, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

November 3, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ecker & Standish and Thomas J. Standish, Las Vegas; Lemons Grundy & Eisenberg and Robert L. Eisenberg, Reno, for Petitioners.

Dickerson, Dickerson, Consul & Pocker and Robert P. Dickerson, Las Vegas, for Real Party in Interest.

Molof & Vohl and Robert C. Vohl, Reno, for Amici Curiae Sierra Nevada Association of Paralegals, National Association of Legal Assistants, and National Association of Legal Secretaries of Washoe County.

Before the Court En Banc.


OPINION

BECKER, J.

The law firm of Ecker & Standish was disqualified from representing petitioner Steven Leibowitz pursuant to our decision in Ciaffone v. District Court,1 which addressed imputed disqualification based upon employment of a nonlawyer employee who had access to confidential or privileged information of an adverse party during the course of the employee's prior employment. For the reasons set forth...

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