FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES, INC. v. PALADINO

Nos. B142129, B143537.

106 Cal.Rptr.2d 906 (2001)

89 Cal.App.4th 294

FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES, INC., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Gia PALADINO, Defendant and Appellant. Gia Paladino, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Fox Searchlight Pictures, Inc., Defendant and Appellant.

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

May 22, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey F. Webb and Theodore A. Russell, San Francisco, for Plaintiff and Respondent Fox Searchlight Pictures, Inc., and for Defendant and Appellant Fox Searchlight Pictures, Inc.

Zimmerman, Koomer, Connolly & Finkel, Alan H. Finkel; Cochran-Bond, Connon & Ben-Zvi and Nicholas P. Connon, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Respondent and for Defendant and Appellant Gia Paladino.


JOHNSON, J.

Upon learning its former in-house counsel planned to sue for wrongful termination of employment, a company struck first by suing the former counsel for disclosing confidential and privileged information to the attorneys handling her wrongful termination case. The former inhouse counsel moved to strike the company's complaint as a SLAPP suit.1 The company responded with motions to disqualify the attorneys representing its former...

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