A California appellate court has reversed a decision disqualifying Crowell & Moring from a piece of insurance litigation because a lawyer the firm hired had previously done work for its opponent in the case while at an e-discovery firm.

Elizabeth Pollock, the attorney at the center of the disqualification, did work for Crowell’s litigation opponent, plumbing supply company Fluidmaster Inc., when she worked for California-based electronic discovery firm E-STET. She joined Crowell’s Los Angeles office as a “discovery attorney” in July 2017 long after the litigation between Fluidmaster and the firm’s client, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co., was up-and-running.