Brown v. Eighth Judicial District Court Ex Rel. County of Clark

*1202OPINION

By the Court,

Rose, C. J.:

This writ petition presents us with the question whether a party’s counsel of choice should be disqualified based on his close association with a law firm disqualified under SCR 160 for an imputed conflict of interest.1 We conclude that disqualification is not warranted absent proof of a reasonable probability that counsel actually acquired privileged,. confidential information, and we therefore grant the petition.

Petitioner Florence Brown sustained life-threatening injuries in an automobile accident in August 1992. She was hospitalized and underwent surgery by…