Court Opinion

ID: 9584291
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:46:34.142404+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:07:27.962352
License: Public Domain

Hill, Presiding Justice,
concurring.
I join the majority opinion. I write separately only to point out that there is nothing said by the majority to indicate that the burden of proving that a client’s confidential communication has been transmitted from one attorney spouse to the other is upon the party moving for disqualification. The record before us shows that the spouses here discussed the case but that no confidences or secrets were discussed. In my view, it would be an intolerable burden, a burden possibly requiring disclosure of the confidential communication itself, to require the movant to prove not only that one attorney spouse discussed the case with the other but also transmitted the client’s confidential communications to the other. Because the majority opinion does not place such burden on the movant, I concur in it.