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A lawyer's demand letter vs. extortion? (Flatley and the Karen Sypher trial)

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One of the recurring issues in the law of lawyering is deciding when a lawyer's demand letter is simply lawyering in the lawful sense and when it's extortion in the criminal sense.  In California, we had the Flatley case, in which a lawyer demanded money from a famous dancer/choreographer but ended up getting sued for civil damages and, if I recall correctly, losing $11 million.

Now we are seeing news accounts about the extortion trial of Karen Sypher, who had claimed that she had been raped by Rick Pitino, a well-known college basketball coach.  Sypher's lawyer had had his own intimate relationship with Sypher and he wrote a $10 million demand letter to Pitino.  The prosecution theory, though, is that the lawyer had been manipulated by Sypher.   Overlawyered, the ABA Journal, and USA Today are covering the trial.

Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on August 03, 2010 (boomark / email).

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