It has been a rough couple of weeks for two large Texas firms after intermediate appellate courts ruled that they are disqualified from representing clients because of unusual conflict-of-interest allegations.
In an April 16 mandamus opinion in In Re: Guaranty Insurance Services Inc. , Austin’s 3rd Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court decision and ruled that the trial judge did not abuse his discretion when he disqualified Strasburger & Price from representing a client in an insurance-coverage case because a Strasburger legal assistant had worked for the opposing party in the case while employed at a different firm.
