Pineda

BACKGROUND

20 Plaintiff has sued Costco for negligence and premises liability after she slipped and fell in 21 a Costco store located in Hayward, California. (Notice of Removal, Ex. A, Compl. at ECF p. 11.) 22 Plaintiff is represented by DTLA. One of DTLA’s attorneys, Anthony Werbin, represented 23 Costco while at his previous firm. Costco asserts that he possesses confidential attorney-client 24 information belonging to Costco that is substantially related to these proceedings and that his 25 conflict must be imputed to DTLA. 26 Costco attests that Werbin represented Costco on slip and fall matters and developed 27 1 confidential and privileged documents, and developed litigation strategy on Costo matters. ((See, 2 e.g., Declaration of Leigh Ann Ruijters (“Ruijters Decl.”), ¶¶ 2, 5-7.) Werbin attests that he “was 3 never provided with any confidential or proprietary information” by Costco during his previous 4 employment. (Declaration of Anthony Werbin (“Werbin Decl.”), ¶ 9.) Werbin also attests that 5 since he joined DTLA he has worked on one Costco case, which was before DTLA instituted an 6 ethical wall to screen him from any Costco cases. (Id. ¶ 11; see…