Review Transferred to Court of Appeal January 15, 2003.
McINTYRE, J.
We hold in this case that the personal disqualification of an attorney based on an earlier adverse representation will not automatically lead to the vicarious disqualification of a law firm in a different but substantially related litigation; rather, the law firm may rebut a presumption of shared confidences and avoid vicarious disqualification by showing that effective screening methods...
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