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HETOS INVESTMENTS, LTD. v. KURTIN

California Court of Appeal
Contracts, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Property Law & Real Estate
When a law firm prepares a legal document and later discovers that a provision therein may violate the law, the law firm is not disqualified as a...
07/01/2003 G031852

VINER v. SWEET

Supreme Court of California
Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Legal Malpractice
When alleged legal malpractice occurred in the performance of transactional work, the client must prove the causation element according to the "but...
06/23/2003 S101964

MOORE v. ANDERSON ZEIGLER DISHAROON GALLAGHER & GRAY

California Court of Appeal
Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Legal Malpractice
An attorney does not have a duty to beneficiaries under a will to evaluate and ascertain the testamentary capacity of a client seeking to amend the...
06/20/2003 A099643

SANCHEZ v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES

California Court of Appeal
Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
The trial court did not abuse its discretion in rejecting and dismissing plaintiffs' claim of impracticability, where the proffered reason for not...
06/19/2003 B157711

US v. HERNANDEZ

United States Tenth Circuit
Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Evidence
No Fifth or Sixth Amendment violation occurred when a recused Assistant U.S. Attorney sent two e-mails to his son regarding defendant's case....
06/19/2003 01-8051

CANTON POULTRY & DELI, INC. v. STOCKWELL, HARRIS, WIDOM & WOOLVERTON

California Court of Appeal
Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Legal Malpractice, Workers' Compensation
When plaintiff was dismissed from a workers' compensation case by operation of law, whatever duties defendant, who had represented plaintiff in the...
06/18/2003 B152610

IN RE: BELLSOUTH CORP.

United States Eleventh Circuit
Class Actions, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
A writ of mandamus setting aside the disqualification of petitioners' attorney in representing them in a putative class-action race discrimination...
06/18/2003 02-15362, 02-15445

CHRISTOPHER v. STATE OF DELAWARE

Supreme Court of Delaware
Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Evidence showed that defendant's statement was voluntary where the police officer repeatedly advised defendant that he could stop talking if he wanted...
06/16/2003 348-2002

KOO v. RUBIO?S RESTAURANTS, INC.

California Court of Appeal
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
An attorney's unilateral declaration regarding representation cannot, by itself, create an attorney-client relationship when none otherwise exists.
06/11/2003 G031093

FERGUSON v. LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP

Supreme Court of California
Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Legal Malpractice, Remedies
Plaintiffs in a legal malpractice action may not recover as compensatory damages the punitive damages they allegedly lost due to the negligence of...
06/09/2003 S104444

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