United States First Circuit

In a suit against lawyers and law firms to recover $4 million lost in a series of fraudulent transfers, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where: 1) summary judgment was appropriate for negligence, misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, and 93A unfair trade practices claims because no attorney-client relationship was formed between plaintiff and any of the defendants; and 2) plaintiff's remaining claims were not filed within the statutory period.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/30/2007
• Published 03/30/2007

Judges

• STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jessica Block with whom Block & Roos, LLP, was on brief for appellant., Martha Born with whom William B. Mallin, Timothy S. Coon, Holland & Knight, LLP, and Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, were on brief for Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott, LLC.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul B. Galvani with whom Matthew P. Garvey and Ropes & Gray, LLP, were on brief for appellees Greenberg Traurig, LLP, and Pappalardo.