Healthnet, Inc. v. Health Net, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that “[m]ost jurisdictions that approve of the screening of private lawyers, such as the Seventh Circuit, require that the screening take place at the time of the lawyer’s hiring or as soon as the disqualifying event occurs”
• “[C]ourts determining whether to disqualify counsel should act to prevent the appearance of impropriety and resolve doubts in favor of disqualification.”
• attorney’s letter discussing the “legal implications” of client’s trademark was “substantially related” to client’s later trademark enforcement litigation
• “[w]here a reasonable client would be concerned by a potential conflict, a court must err on the side of disqualification”
• “Law firm screens . . . are supposed to keep a conflicted lawyer from discussing the matter with firm personnel, from having access to files concerning the matter, and from sharing fees derived from the matter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).