Mirshojae

BACKGROUND

Reghabi is a California attorney. Though the parties disagree about the timing, Reghabi had a preexisting attorney- client relationship with Ahang Zarin Kelk—Mirshojae’s ex-wife— when Reghabi began representing Mirshojae in litigation in 2016. Mirshojae and Kelk divorced in 2010, but Kelk continued to be the office manager for Mirshojae’s clinics and the two continued to work together on other business ventures. Mirshojae is a doctor, owns several clinics (including two that Reghabi named as defendants in his lawsuit against Mirshojae), and had an ownership interest in two properties that were the subject of Mirshojae’s suit against Reghabi, Kelk (Mirshojae’s ex-wife), and Allen Yadegar (who Mirshojae’s complaint identifies as Kelk’s fiancé). According to Mirshojae’s complaint against Reghabi, Kelk, and Yadegar, Kelk and Yadegar managed commercial properties owned (at least in part) by Mirshojae until “Mirshojae’s relationship with Kelk and Yadegar began to deteriorate” in October 2016. A. The Lawsuits In February 2017, Mirshojae and two entities he owned that held commercial properties filed a complaint (Los Angeles Super. Ct. No. LC105208) alleging in eight causes of…