Koo v. Rubio's Restaurants, Inc.

Opinion

MOORE, J.

An attorney representing a corporate defendant in a class action lawsuit concerning overtime wages for managers declared before the court that his firm represented both the defendant and its managers. He later clarified that his only intention in so declaring was to put opposing counsel on notice that the defendant corporation’s managerial agents were “represented parties” to the extent provided in State Bar Rules of Professional Conduct, mle 2-100, 1 but that he certainly did not mean to convey the impression that he represented the managers in their individual capacities. Of…