Ethics

Unfortunately, the story is behind a registration wall here.  The key graf:

"Somach, a partner with Somach Simmons & Dunn, had come to the San Francisco court to argue that staff attorneys for administrative law agencies shouldn't simultaneously serve as prosecutors in one matter while acting as advisers to the same agency in an unrelated case. Doing so, he said, violates the due process rights of parties that appear before the agencies."

By all accounts, the court didn't see that dual roles presented any real conflict, and so the court may strike down a precedent from an intermediate appellate court, Quintero v. City of Santa Ana , 114 Cal.App.4th 810 (2003).