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Litigation

May 25, 2012

Attorney ordered to pay $8 million over handling of case

A Beverly Hills tax lawyer must pay the ex-wife of a top Fortune 500 executive nearly $8 million for taking millions from her over several years as her attorney, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has ruled.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A Beverly Hills tax lawyer must pay the ex-wife of a Fortune 500 executive nearly $8 million for taking millions from her over several years as her attorney, a Superior Court judge has ruled.


The long-running dispute grew out of Georgiana Hixson's 1995 divorce from Harry F. Hixson Jr., who had been president and chief operating officer of pharmaceutical giant Amgen Inc. and is now the CEO a...

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