PEOPLE v. SPEEDEE OIL CHANGE SYSTEMS, INC.

No. S058639.

86 Cal.Rptr.2d 816 (1999)

980 P.2d 371

20 Cal.4th 1135

The PEOPLE ex rel. Department of Corporations, Plaintiff, v. SPEEDEE OIL CHANGE SYSTEMS, INC., et al., Defendants; Gary Burch et al., Interveners and Respondents; Mobil Oil Corporation, Movant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

July 27, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horvitz & Levy, Barry R. Levy, Lisa Perochet, Sandra J. Smith, Jon B. Eisenberg, Oakland; Cohon & Gardner, Steven H. Gardner and Jeffrey M. Cohon, Los Angeles, for Movant and Appellant.

Law Offices of Geordan Goebel, Geordan Goebel, Woodland Hills; Shapiro, Rosenfeld & Close, Mitchell S. Shapiro, Santa Monica, Douglas L. Carden and Rhonda H. Mehlman, Los Angeles, for Interveners and Respondents.

Diane C. Yu, Marie M. Moffat, Robert A. Hawley, San Francisco, and Teri L. Nelson for the State Bar of California as Amicus Curiae.

Rogers, Joseph, O'Donnell & Quinn, Pamela Phillips and Sean M. SeLegue, San Francisco, as Amici Curiae.


CHIN, J.

When a conflict of interest requires an attorney's disqualification from a matter, the disqualification normally extends vicariously to the attorney's entire law firm. (See Flatt v. Superior Court (1994) 9 Cal.4th 275, 283, 36 Cal.Rptr.2d 537, 885 P.2d 950. (Flatt).) This rule...

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