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: The Greatest American LawyerLaw Firm Sued by Ex-Client for $55M
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The law firm, Debeboise & Plimpton LLP, who filed a lawsuit last year against an ex-client for $6 Million in unpaid legal fees received an answer this week with counterclaims seeking $55 million in damages.
Read the full story below:
ABA Journal, LAW PRACTICE MANAGEMENT
Ex-Client Sues Debevoise for $55M re ?Variety of Chimera & Boondoggles?
By Martha Neil
January 14, 2010It's a truism that a law firm that sues a client to collect an unpaid bill is almost asking for a malpractice claim. And a $6 million unpaid-bill suit filed by Debevoise & Plimpton last year against a former client is not the exception that proves the rule.
In an answer (PDF) filed yesterday in the New York Supreme Court suit, Candlewood Timber Development asserts counterclaims seeing $55 million in damages, reports the Am Law Litigation Daily.
Full post as published by The Greatest American Lawyer on January 15, 2010 (boomark / email).
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