Just because a firm’s conflicts screening system for legal assistants fails, that doesn’t necessarily mean the firm is disqualified from handling a case. That’s the upshot of a recent Texas Supreme Court opinion won by Amy Schumacher on behalf of her former firm Strasburger & Price and its insurance company client.
Trans-Global Solutions sought to disqualify Strasburger from representing Guaranty Insurance Services in an insurance-coverage dispute. As alleged in Trans-Global’s motion to disqualify, Strasburger legal assistant Clyde Williams previously had worked on the case on behalf of Trans-Global while employed at a different firm, Godwin Pappas Langley Ronquillo (now Godwin Ronquillo). Williams left the Godwin firm in 2006; in 2008, some lawyers left the Godwin firm to form Houston’s Kane Russell Coleman & Logan. Kane Russell continued to represent Trans-Global.
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