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Real Estate

Sep. 10, 2002

Landlord Cannot Sue Law Firm Partners for Fraud

BY KATHERINE GAIDOS Special to CREJ Former members of an Orange County law firm cannot be sued for fraud for taking partnership draws from their failing firm while they owed money to their landlord, a state appellate court has ruled.

BY KATHERINE GAIDOS
Special to CREJ

        Former members of an Orange County law firm cannot be sued for fraud for taking partnership draws from their failing firm while they owed money to their landlord, a state appellate court has ruled.

        The firm's former landlord, the Annod Corp., had sued the last 10 partners of Hamilton & Samuels of Newport Bach individually ...

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