FIREMAN'S FUND INS. CO. v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. B229880.

196 Cal.App.4th 1263 (2011)

FIREMAN'S FUND INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; FRONT GATE PLAZA, LLC, et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

June 28, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Rex S. Heinke , L. Rachel Helyar , Shawn Hanson and Maria Ellinikos for Petitioners.

Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Robin Meadow , Robert A. Olson , Cynthia E. Tobisman and Jeffrey E. Raskin for Los Angeles County Bar Association, Beverly Hills Bar Association and Association of Southern California Defense Counsel as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Christine Burdick , for Santa Clara County Bar Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Silver & Freedman and Lane E. Bender for Real Parties in Interest Front Gate Plaza, Raymond Arjmand, Primero Management, Inc., and R & A Associates, Inc.

Shernoff Bidart Echeverria , Evangeline F. Grossman ; Smythe Law Group, Inc., Michelle J. Smythe ; Valerie F. Horn & Associates and Valerie F. Horn for Real Party in Interest Front Gate Plaza.


OPINION

CROSKEY, J.

The petitioners, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company and National Surety Corporation (hereinafter, collectively Fireman's Fund), seek a writ of mandate vacating the trial court's order of November 18, 2010, which required an attorney, who was a member of a law firm that had formerly represented Fireman's Fund in this litigation, to answer at her deposition five questions to which objections of attorney-client privilege...

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