California Court of Appeal

When a law firm prepares a legal document and later discovers that a provision therein may violate the law, the law firm is not disqualified as a matter of law, from representing its client in a lawsuit that challenges the validity of the offending provision.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/01/2003
• Published 07/01/2003

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Voss, Cook & Thel, Francis T. Donohue III, Daniel S. Miller, Los Angeles;  Law Offices of Richard E. Flamm and Richard E. Flamm, Berkeley, for Defendant and Appellant., Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, Brian L. Behmer, San Diego, Timothy S. Blackford and Stanley J. Panikowski, for Plaintiffs and Respondents.