People v. Smikle

How courts have described this case

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• differentiating between lawyers who become heavily involved in the facts of a particular matter and those who enter briefly on the periphery
• concurring opinion by Judge Adams of the Third Circuit, sitting by designation
• association with large law firm not necessarily sign of acquisition of confidential client information harmful in later, adverse representations
• attorney rebutted presumption that he had received confidences and secrets by showing that his work had been limited to “procedural matter(s) or research on a specific point of law.”
• Canon 9 “not intended completely to override the delicate balance created by Canon 4”
• “Although Canon 9 dictates that doubts should be resolved in favor of disqualification, . . . it is not intended completely to override the delicate balance created by Canon 4 and the decisions thereunder.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).