California Court of Appeal May 10, 2011, No. B215544 (Carpenter & Zuckerman, LLP v. Cohen)

Opinion

MOSK, J.

INTRODUCTION

The trial court, in granting defendants’ request to strike plaintiffs’ memorandum of costs seeking attorney fees incurred as the prevailing parties in a prior appeal, concluded that a law firm and its two partners, by using an associate in the law firm, had, in effect, represented themselves in the prior appeal.