Wu

*1072 In O'Gara Coach Co., LLC v. Ra (2019) 30 Cal.App.5th 1115 (Ra) this court reversed the trial court's order denying O'Gara Coach Company LLC's motion to disqualify Richie Litigation, P.C. and its attorneys from representing former O'Gara Coach senior executive Joseph Ra in litigation that included cross-actions between O'Gara Coach and Ra. We held O'Gara Coach was entitled to insist that Darren Richie, its former president and chief operating officer and a principal of Richie Litigation, honor his ethical obligation as a member of the California State Bar to maintain the integrity of the judicial process by refraining from representing former O'Gara Coach employees in litigation against O'Gara Coach when Richie possessed confidential attorney-client privileged information materially related to the matters at issue, even though that information had been obtained by Richie in his capacity as an officer of the client, not its lawyer. (See id . at pp. 1128-1129.)

Unlike the trial court in Ra , the trial court in the case at bar granted O'Gara Coach's motion to disqualify Richie Litigation and its attorneys from *1073 representing Thomas Wu, a former sales advisor at O'Gara Coach…