In Re American Home Products Corp.

in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice GONZALEZ, Justice HECHT, Justice ENOCH, Justice ABBOTT and Justice HANKINSON joined.

In these consolidated original proceedings, Relators seek to disqualify two law firms that jointly represent plaintiffs in the underlying suits because one of those firms retained a legal assistant who had previously worked with counsel for the defendants in this litigation. We hold that disqualification of the Herrera firm is required because plaintiffs did not rebut the presumption that the legal assistant shared confidential information with Herrera or members of his…