In Re Jasmine S.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Rex S. Heinke and Seth M.M. Stodder, Los Angeles, for Objector and Appellant.

Raymond G. Fortner, Jr., Los Angeles County Counsel, Tracey Dodds, Principal Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Merrill Lee Toole, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Monrovia, for Minor Jasmine S.

Christopher Blake, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Diego, for Minor Lou D.

MOSK, J.

This is one of eight appeals 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 interests (conflicts). In the first appeal, In re Charlisse C. (2007) 149 Cal.App.4th 1554 , 58 Cal.Rptr.3d 173 ( Charlisse ), this court reversed the order disqualifying the Center in a case involving a purported conflict arising from the successive representation of two clients with adverse interests. We now consider, on essentially the same record before us in Charlisse, whether the juvenile court erred in disqualifying one of the Center's independent units in a case involving the concurrent representation of…