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<b>Counsel Concerns:</b> Experts' Reports Insufficient in Broadcast-Deal Malpractice Suit

By Stan Soocher
March 30, 2009

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted summary judgment for a law firm sued for legal malpractice over the handling of a license to provide in-store radio broadcasts at U.S. military commissaries. Star Broadcasting Inc. v. Reed Smith LLP, 08-0616. The district court found fault with the broadcast client's expert witnesses in the malpractice case.

In 1999, Star's president/CEO Pat DiPlacido contacted attorney Glenn Mahone in Reed Smith's Pittsburgh, PA, office to help negotiate a license for the operation of a satellite music-broadcast network for U.S. Department of Defense commissaries worldwide. Malone practiced business and commercial law, and had owned a commercial radio station and a satellite radio network.

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