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Discipline

Mar. 8, 2008

Court Denies Lawyer's Use Of Anti-SLAPP

LOS ANGELES - A Van Nuys personal-injury lawyer who signed a lien to pay his clients' medical bills with settlement money cannot use the anti-SLAPP statute to avoid being sued by medical providers, the 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled Thursday.

By Cortney Fielding
Daily Journal Staff Writer
This article appears on Page 4.

      LOS ANGELES - A Van Nuys personal-injury lawyer who signed a lien to pay his clients' medical bills with settlement money cannot use the anti-SLAPP statute to avoid being sued by medical providers, the 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled Thursday.
      The court rejected attorney Gary Rand's claim that the ...

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