California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Pacheco v. Superior Court of Tulare County, F061499, Super. Ct. No. VPR043799 (Cal. App. 2011):
subjects of the prior and the current representations can be demonstrated, access to confidential information by the attorney in the course of the first representation (relevant, by definition, to the second representation) is presumed and disqualification of the attorney's representation of the second client is mandatory; indeed, the disqualification extends vicariously to the entire firm. [Citations.]" (Flatt v. Superior Court (1994) 9 Cal.4th 275, 283-284.)
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