Bryan Cave says two malpractice lawsuits against the firm should be dismissed because the bankruptcy trustees who filed the lawsuits aren’t shielded from their debtor’s wrongdoing.
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Read More »Bryan Cave says two malpractice lawsuits against the firm should be dismissed because the bankruptcy trustees who filed the lawsuits aren’t shielded from their debtor’s wrongdoing.
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Read More »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.
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Read More »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.
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Read More »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.
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Read More »Joyce v. Armstrong Teasdale (MLW No. 62009/Case No. 10-1362 – 7 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Bye, J.)
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Read More »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.
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Read More »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.
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Read More »The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has thrown out a $2 million malpractice verdict lodged against St. Louis attorney Daniel Finney Jr. A St. Louis jury hit Finney with the verdict in 2009 over his handling of a possible wrongful death suit for the family of a man killed in a workplace accident seven years earlier.
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Read More »Selimanovic, et al. v. Finney Jr. (MLW No. 61757/Case No. ED94187 – 17 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Crane, J.)
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Read More »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.
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Read More »Roberts v. Sokol, et al. (MLW No. 61682/Case No. SD30263 – 19 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Barney, P.J.)
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