Keller Rohrback LLP attorneys can’t represent a couple in their dispute against USAA Casualty Insurance Co. because of a conflict of interest, the Washington Court of Appeals ruled.
The suit over fire-damage repairs to Richard and Debra Plein’s home is substantially related to prior litigation in which different Keller lawyers represented USAA, the court said. USAA and Keller had a decade-long attorney-client relationship that ended just three months before attorneys William Smart and Ian Birk joined the Pleins’ legal team, it said.
The court’s decision, which reverses the lower court, is the first to interpret the term “substantially related matter” ...
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