Cappello Group, Inc. v. Meadow CA2/8
Defendants Cary Meadow and Channel Investment Advisors, Inc. appeal the trial court’s denial of their motion to disqualify counsel for plaintiffs Cappello Group, Inc. and Cappello Capital Corp. from representing defendants in an arbitration pending before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority based on alleged violation of discovery rules set forth in State Comp. Ins. Fund v. WPS, Inc. (1999) 70 Cal.App.4th 644, 657 (State Fund). Defendants contend the law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, which represents plaintiffs, improperly sought to use in the FINRA arbitration pending among the parties five of the 717,760 documents that defendants had electronically produced during discovery. Defendants assert these five documents were privileged under the attorney-client or work product privileges and had been produced inadvertently.
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