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Typos and Errors Lead to Slashed Fees

By Glen Ashman

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Submitting a pleading riddled with typos and other errors has cost an attorney some big bucks. A federal judge spent three pages describing the errors, and ultimately slashed the $180,000 in requested fees to about $26,000. The attorney said in an interview that he relies too heavily on spell-checking software and that he accidentally filed an unproofed draft while using an electronic filing system. Among the misspellings flagged by the judge: "plaintf," "attoreys," "reasonbale" and "Ubited States."

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Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on October 28, 2008 (boomark / email).

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