Parker v. Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

CASTILLO, District Judge.

“There is nothing more central to what it means to be a client in the American system of justice than to know that, having hired a lawyer, the client need not worry about being taken advantage of by lawyers, with special skills and training, who represent others.” ABA Comm, on Ethics and Profl Responsibility, Formal Op. 95-396 (1995). Plaintiffs claim that Defendant Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers, Inc. (“Pepsi”) and its counsel, John Kuenstler, of the law firm Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, willfully violated this principle when Kuen-stler…