In Re Zamer G.
Opinion
Opinion
Merrill Lee Toole, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Monrovia, for Minor Zamer G.
Aida Aslanian, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Glendale, for Minors Nay. H. and Naes. H.
Christopher Blake, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Diego, for Minors Joshua E. and Justin E.
MOSK, J.
This is one of eight recent appeals brought by the Children's Law Center of Los Angeles (the Center or CLC), all from orders of the juvenile court disqualifying the Center from representing children in dependency proceedings because of purported conflicts of interest. The Center created independent unitsreferred to as CLC Unit 1, CLC Unit 2 and CLC Unit 3to provide, in the same proceeding, legal representation to multiple clients who might have conflicts of interest. [1] In In re Charlisse C. (2007) 149 Cal.App.4th 1554 , 58 Cal.Rptr.3d 173 (Charlisse ) and In re Jasmine S. (2007) 152 Cal.App.4th 297 , 61 Cal.Rptr.3d 256 (Jasmine ), we reversed the juvenile court's orders disqualifying the Center in cases involving, respectively, the successive representation of two clients with adverse interests, and the concurrent representation of two clients with potentially adverse…