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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Apr. 23, 2015

Playboy's professional negligence suit faces tough hurdles, lawyers say

To win a professional negligence suit, Playboy Enterprises Inc. will have the tough task of proving that its lawyers at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP could have predicted an unprecedented verdict of more than $6 million


By Laura Hautala


Daily Journal Staff Writer


To win a professional negligence suit, Playboy Enterprises Inc. will have to prove that its lawyers at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP could have predicted an unprecedented verdict of more than $6 million, and that will be a complicated task, legal observers say.


Playboy claims its attorneys should have encouraged a settlement in a lawsuit filed by a former executive instead of leading i...

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