Tag Archive | "legal malpractice"
Jury awards $857,000 against attorney in malpractice trial
A St. Louis jury has returned an $857,000 verdict, including $600,000 in punitive damages, against an estate attorney in a legal malpractice trial.
Continue reading...Bryan Cave asks federal bankruptcy court to dismiss malpractice suits
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
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Bryan Cave is asking a federal bankruptcy court to dismiss two malpractice suits against the firm, claiming the bankruptcy trustees who filed the suits can’t come to court “with clean hands” because their debtors took part in the wrongdoing.
Continue reading...Bryan Cave sued over advice to business in Ponzi scheme
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
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Bryan Cave is facing two legal malpractice lawsuits over its advice to a California mortgage brokerage company now in bankruptcy and its leaders now in prison.
Continue reading...Another suit filed against Vogels
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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The web of litigation involving a failed investment scheme continues to expand. An investor filed suit in St. Louis Circuit Court today against Missouri Bar President-Elect Lynn Ann Vogel and her husband Paul Vogel, along with an English law firm.
Continue reading...Lawsuit against Armstrong Teasdale goes back to court
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled St. Louis-based Armstrong Teasdale has not shown a lawsuit was filed too late against the firm, rejecting a statute-of-limitations defense argument.
Continue reading...Former Vatterott exec says lawyer gave him bad advice
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
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A former executive of Vatterott Educational Systems is at least $150,000 poorer due to bad advice from an Armstrong Teasdale lawyer, the executive claims in a new lawsuit.
Continue reading...UPDATED: St. Louis lawyer off the hook for $2M legal malpractice verdict
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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St. Louis lawyer Daniel P. Finney Jr. is off the hook for a legal malpractice claim after an appeals court said his clients in a wrongful death case could not have collected a judgment even if he had filed a lawsuit on time.
Continue reading...Carmody MacDonald sued for legal malpractice
Friday, August 20, 2010
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Carmody MacDonald has been sued in St. Louis County Circuit Court for allegedly failing to disclose a potential conflict of interest and miscalculating potential damage expenses prior to a settlement. Background on the underlying suit: In 2006, Cynthia Mesker was living in Florida and working with upscale real estate agent Janet McAfee to purchase a [...]
Continue reading...New York court tosses malpractice case against Bryan Cave
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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A New York appeals court threw out a three and a half year old legal malpractice case against Bryan Cave and said the plaintiff shouldn’t have tried to blame the law firm for adopting a pension plan that later was audited by the Internal Revenue Service. Commodities trader Robert Denenberg had sued Bryan Cave and [...]
Continue reading...Judge sets aside $2 million legal malpractice verdict, grants new trial
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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A circuit judge today granted a new legal malpractice trial to St. Louis solo attorney Daniel Finney Jr. In September, a St. Louis city jury hit Finney with a $2 million legal malpractice verdict. Finney’s former clients, the family of Serif Selimanovics, claimed Finney failed to fully investigate a possible wrongful death suit against Selimanovic’s [...]
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Monday, August 8, 2011
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