In Re Charlisse C.
Opinion
Opinion
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, Peter Ferrera, Assistant County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
John L. Dodd & Associates and John L. Dodd, Tustin; John Cahill, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Respondent and Minor.
MOSK, J.
The Children's Law Center of Los Angeles (the Center) appeals from an order of the juvenile court disqualifying the Center from representing Charlisse C. (child), a child in a dependency proceeding. The motion to disqualify was filed by child's mother, Shadonna C. (mother), age 19, a former client of the Center. The juvenile court disqualified the Center on the ground that the Center had violated the safeguards against conflicts of interest in concurrent representations approved by the Courts of Appeal in Castro v. Los Angeles County Bd. of Supervisors (1991) 232 Cal.App.3d 1432, 1435-1445 , 284 Cal. Rptr. 154 ( Castro ) and People v. Christian (1996) 41 Cal.App.4th 986, 991-1002 , 48 Cal.Rptr.2d 867 ( Christian) . This court reverses the disqualification order.