IN RE GUARANTY INS. SERVICES, INC.

No. 10-0364.

343 S.W.3d 130 (2011)

In re GUARANTY INSURANCE SERVICES, INC., Relator.

Supreme Court of Texas.

July 1, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary Siller , John Kevin Spiller , Strasburger & Price LLP, Houston, Amy J. Schumacher , Austin, Robert M. `Randy' Roach Jr. , Roach & Newton, L.L.P., Houston, for Guaranty Insurance Services, Inc.

Ronald G. Bankston , Misty Annette Hataway , Kane Russell Coleman & Logan PC, Houston, Reagan W. Simpson , Myrna Janel Salinas , King & Spalding LLP, Austin, for Trans-Global Solutions, Inc.

Larry Parks , Mitchell Williams , Austin, for FG Holdings, Inc.


PER CURIAM.

What happens when a law firm's efforts to screen a conflict fail, permitting a nonlawyer who worked on one side of a case at one firm to work on the other side of the same case at the opposing firm? Here, the trial court disqualified the second firm, reasoning there was a conclusive presumption that the nonlawyer had shared confidential information, despite evidence he had not. A divided court of appeals denied...

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