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Counsel Concerns

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
November 29, 2005

Legal Malpractice/Damage Award Testimony

The Supreme Court of Connecticut upheld a legal malpractice judgment against a law firm that represented the plaintiff client in a suit over a sports publishing company he had co-founded. Margolin v. Kleban and Samor P.C., SC 17388. Kleban and Samor had represented Robert J. Margolin in a suit against Margolin's former business partner in Professional Team Publications. That suit had alleged that Margolin's partner Peter C. Jacquith had tortiously interfered with Margolin's publishing-employment contract, fraudulently induced and defamed Margolin. Margolin obtained a default judgment but was unable to find Jaquith to collect on the ruling. Margolin then sued Kleban and Samor for failure to request or get him a prejudgment remedy against Jaquith. The trial court awarded $1,040,183 to Margolin in the malpractice action.

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