After an 11-day legal malpractice trial in St. Louis Circuit Court, a jury ruled against St. Louis solo attorney Daniel Finney Jr. (pictured) on Sept. 8 and ordered him to pay $2 million to the family of a deceased worker. The family of Serif Selimanovic, who died in 2002 in a workplace accident, claimed Finney failed to fully investigate a possible wrongful death suit against Selimanovic's employer, Brentwood Plastics. The legal malpractice suit also faulted Finney for not properly communicating with Selimanovic's Bosnian widow, Semsa, who struggled with English.

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Lawsuit claims St. Louis charity was misled, lost millions for potential services

A St. Louis not-for-profit has filed a legal malpractice claim against national bankruptcy firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges (whose New York City offices is pictured), alleging that the firm misled the organization into filing for bankruptcy and caused it to lose millions. The National Benevolent Association of the Christian Church, or NBA, argue that Weil Gotshal had misrepresented the NBA's creditors' willingness to negotiate an out-of-court restructure of the organization and misled it on the cost of bankruptcy proceedings.

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A legal malpractice carrier is not obligated to pay the attorney fees of an appellate lawyer who represented two St. Louis lawyers accused of fraud and conspiracy to defraud. When a St. Louis County jury ordered William Cooper and Cynthia ...

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You’ve been sued for malpractice. You have lawyer’s professional liability, or LPL, insurance. Your insurer retained counsel to defend you. We’ll examine how the “tripartite relationship” among you, your insurer, and the lawyer hired by your insurer might affect the ...

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A St. Louis County jury has cleared Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard and one of its attorneys, Rodney Sharp (pictured, watching the jury), of all wrongdoing in a legal malpractice suit against them. Physician Hamid Hosseini had filed suit against Sharp, alleging that the attorney had negligently represented him because Sharp had failed to ask about all relevant insurance carriers in Hosseini's medical malpractice suit. The jury deliberated for about two hours after the six-day trial before issuing a verdict on Monday.

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A legal malpractice case against Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard playing out in St. Louis County Circuit Court this week will examine what duty an attorney has to inform a client about the need to contact all relevant insurance carriers. ...

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Legal malpractice; sentencing   07-2220 Brian F. Leonard; Marshall Investments Corp.; Page State Bank; Mcville State Bank; Ramsey National Bank and Trust of Devils Lake; Security Bank of USA; Ultima Bank Minnesota; First National Bank and Trust Co.; Dacotah Bank; ...

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