Legal Opinion
Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration Partners, L.P. v. Superior Court of Orange Cty.
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 19, 1997No. G021381PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SILLS, P. J.
Defendants Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration Partners, L.P. and Mission Energy New York, Inc., and specially appearing defendant B-41 Associates, L.P. (collectively, BNYCP) seek extraordinary relief from an order disqualifying their counsel, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P. (LeBoeuf), for a conflict of interest. This case presents the issue (surprisingly unexplored in California case law) of whether a conflict of interest arises when an attorney represents a subsidiary corporation in one matter while undertaking a representation directly adverse to the subsidiary’s…
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