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BROWN v. DIST. CT.

No. 34501.

14 P.3d 1266 (2000)

Florence BROWN and David Brown, Petitioners, v. The EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of the State of Nevada, In and For the COUNTY OF CLARK, and the Honorable James A. Brennan, Senior Judge, Respondents, and John S. Thalgott, M.D., Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

December 19, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Mehesan, Las Vegas; Lionel Sawyer & Collins and Dennis L. Kennedy and David N. Frederick, Las Vegas; Gillock Markley & Killebrew and Julie A. Mersch, Las Vegas, for Petitioners.

Pico & Mitchell and Rebecca L. Mastrangelo and Jill M. Chase, Las Vegas, for Real Party in Interest.

BEFORE THE COURT EN BANC.

OPINION

ROSE, C.J.

This writ petition presents us with the question whether a party's counsel of choice should be disqualified based on his close association with a law firm disqualified under SCR 160 for an imputed conflict of interest.1 We conclude that disqualification is not warranted absent proof of a reasonable probability that counsel actually acquired privileged, confidential information, and we therefore grant...

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