Koulisis v. Rivers

How courts have described this case

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• holding that under the applicable Rules Regulating the Florida Bar, which are similar to the KRPC, nonlawyers must be treated in the same manner as lawyers when considering issues of confidentiality and disqualification
• placing the evidentiary burden “before the law firm that could have best avoided the ethical problem by more carefully screening a hiring decision”
• reversing denial of motion where former staffer was shown to have had lead responsibility for lawyers handling litigation; staffer and new law firm disqualified
• “The scope of information protected by Rule 4-10(b) is broad”

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