In Re George

in which Justice BAKER, Justice ABBOTT,, Justice O’NEILL, and Justice CAYCE (Assigned)1 joined.

In these consolidated mandamus proceedings, we decide whether attorneys can have access to the work product of their client’s previous attorney when that attorney has been disqualified for representing the opposing party in a prior, substantially related matter. We hold that a successor’s access to a disqualified attorney’s work product should be restricted or denied to the extent that such a remedy furthers the purposes underlying the disqualification. Because we establish for the first time a…