Chapter 5: Case questions: Leibowitz v District Court 119 Nev. 523, 78 P. 3d 516 (2003)

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• What were the facts about the two paralegals in this case? What degree of access did they each have to confidential information in this matter? What was the extent of their work on this matter? Did it make a difference?

• The court's decision has a clarification of part of the Ciaffone case and overrules part of the Ciaffonecase? What are those two holdings?

• What should a firm do when it discovers a conflict carried by a new paralegal?

• What factors will a court look at in deciding whether to disqualify a firm based on a paralegal's conflict?

• Did the court indicate why it had so misinterpreted the state of the law when it issued the Ciaffone opinion?

• What do you think of the points raised by the dissent?