California Court of Appeal

Juvenile court order disqualifying objector law center from representing child in a dependency proceeding is reversed as, in circumstances involving successive representations by the center, past breaches in the center-s ethical screens did not require disqualification of child-s attorney when mother failed to demonstrate a reasonable possibility that confidential information relating to one unit of the center's prior representation of mother would be shared with or be readily accessible to child-s current attorney in another unit.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/23/2007
• Published 04/23/2007

Judges

• MOSK, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Rex S. Heinke and Seth M.M. Stodder, Los Angeles, for Objector and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Raymond G. Fortner, Jr., Los Angeles County Counsel, Peter Ferrera, Assistant County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent., John L. Dodd & Associates and John L. Dodd, Tustin;  John Cahill, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Respondent and Minor.