in Re Rsr Corporation and Quemetco Metals Limited, Inc.

delivered-the opinion of the Court.

This ' original proceeding concerns whether the trial court abused'its discretion by disqualifying plaintiffs’ counsel because they' “worked so closely” with a defendant’s former finance manager. Treating the finance manager like a side-switching paralegal, the trial court applied In re American Home Products Corp., 985 S.W.2d 68 (Tex.1998) (orig. proceeding), and found plaintiffs’ counsel should have screened him from participating in the case. We hold the American Home Products screening requirement does "not govern a fact witness with information about…