Slater v. Rimar, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a judge may disqualify an attorney appearing before him who is conflicted out of representing his client
• explaining that a judge may disqualify an attorney appearing before him who is conflicted out of representing his client
• denying access to all material when plaintiff brought suit based on confidential information learned from defendant's former counsel
• denying access to all material when plaintiff brought suit based on confidential information learned from defendant’s former counsel
• “[T]he law wisely declares that all confidential communications and disclosures, made by a client to his legal adviser for the purpose of obtaining his professional aid or advice, shall be strictly privileged[.]” (citation and quotation marks omitted)
• where the plaintiff’s lawyer had been an officer and director, as well as corporate counsel, for the defendant companies and derived the entirety of the plaintiff’s complaint in a shareholder derivative action upon information he had gathered as the defendants' attorney

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).