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"Jury Awards $33 Million In Lawyer Fight"

"Jury Awards $33 Million In Lawyer Fight": Today's edition of The Albuquerque Journal contains an article that begins, "It's a legal battle between two prominent New Mexico lawyers that started as a dispute over $160,000 in legal fees and allegations of a 'stolen' client. On Wednesday, a Bernalillo County jury delivered a verdict that included more than $33 million in punitive damages for attorney Robert McCorkle in his countersuit against one-time friend and colleague Turner Branch and the Branch Law Firm. The punitive damages award dwarfed the $165,000 in compensatory damages awarded in the case, and Branch's lawyer said he expected to appeal."

That's a punitive-to-compensatory damages ratio of 200:1.

Full post as published by How Appealing on February 07, 2008 (boomark / email).