City & County of San Francisco v. Cobra Solutions, Inc.
California Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
*843Opinion
KENNARD, J.
A company seeking contracts for information technology services to a city retained a small private law firm. Two attorneys in the firm provided various services to the company, advising it about doing business with the city. Fifteen months later, one of those attorneys successfully won election as the city attorney. Before taking office, the new city attorney announced he would personally not participate in any case involving a client of his former law firm.
Fifteen months after the new city attorney was sworn in, his office named the company as a defendant in a complaint…
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