Park

BACKGROUND

In 2016, Park sued his former counsel for breach of fiduciary duty and intentional interference with Park’s plan to purchase a cardroom casino in San Jose. That action was consolidated with a similar case Park filed against the same defendants for interfering with his plan to purchase a cardroom casino in Gardena. Park alleges that from 2003 until 2012, defendants provided legal services for Park’s gaming businesses, representing Park before the California Gambling Control Commission and the Bureau of Gambling Control. This attorney-client relationship ended due to a dispute about defendants’ monthly billing rates. Thereafter, defendants allegedly thwarted Park’s efforts to secure ownership interests in the two cardroom casinos by using Park’s confidential information, assisting his competitors, and making disparaging remarks about Park to regulators and others. In September 2018, Park issued third party subpoenas duces tecum to the DOJ and to Deputy Attorney General William Torngren, who represents the Bureau of Gambling Control. Both subpoenas sought production of 19 categories of documents generated between January 2014 and the present. Park requested communications…