Bill Brewer Firm Disqualification in Int’l Trial Reversed

A Dallas judge improperly disqualified Bill Brewer and his partners from being involved in a multimillion-dollar international business dispute after the law firm hired a former executive from the company it is suing who had confidential information about the case, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.

The state’s highest court ruled unanimously that a Dallas district court judge – and subsequently the Dallas Court of Appeals – used the wrong legal standard in ejecting the firm previously known as Bickel & Brewer from representing a client in a case that has been hotly litigated on three continents over the past five years.