Court Opinion

ID: 9789266
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 01:32:58.076739+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:21.153284
License: Public Domain

KENNARD, J., Concurring.
I agree with these two holdings by the majority: (1) There is no legal barrier precluding concurrent counsel or cocounsel from suing one another for indemnification of damages incurred in a legal malpractice action, and (2) the insurer of the attorney sued for legal malpractice may be subrogated to the attorney’s indemnity claims against concurrent counsel or cocounsel.
I express no view, however, on the scope of indemnity between predecessor and successor counsel (see maj. opn., ante, at pp. 280-281) because that is not an issue in this case. Nor do I express a view on whether a client suing one of the client’s attorneys but not the other has waived the attorney-client privilege as to both attorneys or only as to the attorney being sued. (Id. at pp. 283-284.) This issue too is not presented here. I would leave resolution *288of these difficult questions for another day when, having been properly raised, they require resolution.
Baxter, J., concurred.