Harris

I. BACKGROUND

In October 2021, plaintiff filed a form complaint against the attorney defendants and others: Industrial Manufacturing Corporation (IMC), Arrowhead Products (Arrowhead), Andrew Whelan, Mark Davidson, Shannon George, and John Cvetic. There is little in the complaint about plaintiff’s relationship to

1 Attorneys from Proskauer represented both Gold and the firm in the trial court and filed documents on behalf of both clients in this court. On January 8, 2024, Proskauer notified this court that Gold died on January 3, 2024. Proskauer filed a respondent’s brief on its own behalf, but no respondent’s brief was filed on behalf of Gold. “[W]e do not treat the failure to file a respondent’s brief as a ‘default’ (i.e., an admission of error) but examine the record, appellant’s brief, and any oral argument by appellant to see if it supports any claims of error . . . .” (In re Marriage of Riddle (2005) 125 Cal.App.4th 1075, 1078, fn. 1.)

2 the defendants—only an allegation that “[d]efendants, and each of them, entered into and/or maintained an agreement for employment with Plaintiff to handle Human Resources duties at [d]efendants’ offices . . . .” The complaint also fails…