FARMERS INS. EXCH. v. LAW OFFICES OF CONRADO SAYAS

No. 99-56844.

250 F.3d 1234 (2001)

FARMERS INSURANCE EXCHANGE, an Inter-Insurance Exchange, Plaintiff, v. LAW OFFICES OF CONRADO JOE SAYAS, JR., Esq.; Quisenberry & Kabateck, LLP, Defendants-Appellees, Narendra Desai, an individual; Bela Desai, an individual, Defendants-Cross-Defendants-Appellants, and Taylor Miller & Ames; United States Small Business Administration; City of Santa Monica; Does, I-X, inclusive, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 7, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon R. Mower and John R. Armstrong, Mower, Koeller, Nebeker, Carlson & Haluck, LLP, Irvine, California, for the defendants-cross-defendants-appellants.

John N. Quisenberry, Brian S. Kabateck, and Heather M. Mason, Quisenberry & Kabateck LLP, and Conrado Joe Sayas, Law Offices of Conrado Joe Sayas, Jr., Los Angeles, California, for the defendants/appellees.

Before: Procter Hug, Jr., John M. Duhe, Jr., and Richard C. Tallman, Circuit Judges.


Argued and Submitted April 5, 2001 — Pasadena, California.

Opinion by Judge TALLMAN; Dissent by Judge HUG.

TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:

Narendra and Bela Desai appeal the district court's decision to award attorneys' fees to their former attorneys, The Law Offices of Conrado Joe Sayas, Jr. ("Sayas") and Quisenberry & Barbanel, LLP ("Q&B").1 Sayas and Q&B jointly represented the Desais in an insurance bad faith...

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