In a personal injury action, grant of defendants’ disqualification motion is affirmed where plaintiff’s counsel hired a former defense attorney who had received work product related to the action, and defendants’ attorneys did not waive the attorney work product privilege by communicating with each other regarding their respective clients’ common interests.
Read Meza v. H. Muehlstein & Co., No. B201427
Appellate Information
Filed July 18, 2009
Judges
Opinion by Judge Kitching
Counsel
For Appellant:
Raphael Metzger, Metzger Law Group, Long Beach, CA
Gregory A. Coolidge, Metzger Law Group, Long Beach, CA
For Respondent:
Scott T. Tropio, Tropio & Morlan, Woodland Hills, CA
Christopher J. Hammond, Tropio & Morlan, Woodland Hills, CA
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