After a decade of representing California utilities in wildfire litigation, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has switched sides, filing a lawsuit this week against Southern California Edison on behalf of former U.S. Congressman David Dreier.

The suit, filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges Edison was responsible for the 2018 wildfire that ripped through about 100,000 acres and killed three people in the Los Angeles area, destroying more than 500 properties, including Drier’s home in Malibu. Quinn Emanuel partner Kenneth Chiate, who lost his own Malibu home in a 1993 wildfire, said he wanted to represent victims of the last year’s Woolsey Fire.

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