City and County of San Francisco v. Cobra Solutions, Inc.
Filed 6/5/06
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA
CITY AND COUNTY OF
SAN FRANCISCO et al., )
)
v. )
COBRA SOLUTIONS, INC., et al., )
Defendants and Respondents. ) Super. Ct. No. 417-218
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The burdens of disqualification are heavy both for private sector and public sector clients. When an entire government law office is disqualified, the government inevitably incurs the added cost of retaining private counsel (In re Lee G. (1991) 1 Cal.App.4th 17, 28), the delay such substitution entails, and in certain types of litigation it may also lose the specialized expertise of its in-house attorneys, hampering its ability to protect the public's interest. (See e.g., City of Santa Barbara v. Superior Court, supra, 122 Cal.App.4th at p. 23, fn. 1 [city attorney's office possessed specialized expertise in the law of sewer construction and maintenance].) Greater legal costs caused by hiring private sector attorneys raise the specter â€
