Bloomberg Law
June 4, 2018, 6:03 PM UTC

Sheppard Mullin Conflict Waiver Case Puts $4M Fee at Stake

Joyce E. Cutler
Joyce E. Cutler
staff correspondent

Nearly $4 million in fees are at stake in a California Supreme Court fight between a big law firm and a big client over broad advance conflict waivers the firm used in its client engagement letters.

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP got disqualified from representing J-M Manufacturing Co. Inc. in a $1 billion qui tam action because the firm concurrently represented one of the hundreds of defendants in an unrelated matter. The state appeals court held the advance conflict waiver J-M gave Sheppard Mullin didn’t absolve the firm of its duty to tell J-M about the specific conflict once ...

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