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PLEIN v. USAA CAS. INS. CO.

No. 78190-1-I.

445 P.3d 574 (2019)

Richard PLEIN, a married person, and Deborah Plein (formerly Deborah De Witt), a married person, and the marital community composed thereof, Respondents, v. USAA CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, an insurance company, Petitioner, and The Sterling Group, Inc. (doing business as Sterling Group, DKI), a corporation, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

FILED: July 29, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Stewart Mclay , Joshua Nathan Kastan , DKM Law Group LLP, 801 2nd Ave. Ste. 800, Seattle, WA, 98104-1573, Brian Roger Esq. Davis , Attorney at Law, 535 Pacific Ave. Ste. 101, San Francisco, CA, 94133-4635, Jaime Yoshimi Ritton , Attorney at Law, 801 2nd Ave. Ste. 800, Seattle, WA, 98104-1573, Counsel for Petitioner(s).

Joel Hanson , Attorney at Law PLLC, 13540 Lake City Way Ne. Ste. 120, Seattle, WA, 98125-3665, William Candler Smart , Ian S. Birk , Keller Rohrback LLP, 1201 3rd Ave. Ste. 3200, Seattle, WA, 98101-3052, Philip Albert Talmadge , Talmadge/Fitzpatrick/Tribe, 2775 Harbor Ave. Sw., Third Floor Ste. C., Seattle, WA, 98126-2138, Isaac Ruiz , Plaintiff Litigation Group PLLC, 95 S. Jackson St. Ste. 100, Seattle, WA, 98104, Counsel for Respondent(s).

Mick Anthony Jaeger , William W. Simmons , Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, 1111 3rd Ave. Ste. 2700, Seattle, WA, 98101-3224, Counsel for Other Parties.

PUBLISHED OPINION

¶1 We address whether, given the facts of this case, a law firm may represent a person adverse to a former client. In doing so, we analyze whether this case constitutes a matter "substantially related" to the firm's representation of the former client under RPC 1.9(a). Comment 3 to RPC 1.9 guides our analysis...

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