In Re Mitcham

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• disqualifying attorney's new firm for violating confidentiality agreement, not on grounds of imputed knowledge
• these measures include “prophylactic measures assuring that legal assistants do not work on matters related to their prior employment.”
• “For attorneys, there is an irrebuttable presumption they gain confidential information on every case at the firm where they work (whether they work on them or not).”
• where a new employer hired an attorney who had worked as a legal assistant on another law firm’s defense of asbestos claims against TXU, the new employer was disqualified from representing plaintiffs asserting asbestos suits against TXU

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