KALA v. ALUMINUM SMELTING & REFINING COMPANY, INC.

No. 96-1283.

81 Ohio St.3d 1 (1998)

KALA, APPELLEE, v. ALUMINUM SMELTING & REFINING COMPANY, INC., APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided January 21, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Spangenberg, Shibley & Liber and Justin F. Madden, for appellee.

Duvin, Cahn & Hutton, Robert P. Duvin and Robert M. Wolff, for appellant.


LUNDBERG STRATTON, J.

The issue before the court is whether a law firm should be automatically disqualified from representing a party when an attorney leaves his or her former employment with a firm representing a party and joins the law firm representing the opposing party, or whether that law firm may overcome any presumption of shared confidences by instituting effective screening mechanisms. Although this issue has been dealt with in many other jurisdictions...

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