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P0173 Only a client or former client has standing to request a lawyer's disqualification on the ground that the lawyer has received confidential information; the fact that an attorney's spouse, also an attorney, was formerly on the board of directors of a client's adversary does not justify disqualification of the attorney without an affirmative showing that confidential information was received from the spouse.CitationDCH v WAITE (Disqualification Standing) 95 CA4 829 [See: CCP 128; People ex rel etc v SpeeDee 20 C4 1135; In re Complex Asbestos Litigation 232 CA3 572]
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