California Court of Appeal

Order of juvenile court disqualifying appellant Children-s Law Center of Los Angeles from representing children in dependency proceedings because of purported conflicts of interests is reversed as an attorney representing multiple siblings in dependency proceedings may be disqualified only if the siblings have an actual, present conflict of interest, and there was no actual conflict in this case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/20/2007
• Published 06/20/2007

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 Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Raymond G. Fortner, Jr., Los Angeles County Counsel, Tracey Dodds, Principal Deputy County Counsel, for Respondent Department of Children and Family Services., Merrill Lee Toole, Monrovia, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Respondent Jasmine S., Christopher Blake, San Diego, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Respondent Lou D.