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Law Practice

Apr. 20, 2006

Panel Says Jury Needn't Know That Wages Weren't Truly Lost

SAN FRANCISCO - The jury that awarded $108,000 to a former partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman because of a motorcycle accident was never told that his law firm continued to pay his salary and bonuses while he was unable to work.

By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      The jury that awarded $108,000 to a former partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman because of a motorcycle accident was never told that his law firm continued to pay his salary and bonuses while he was unable to work.
      And that is just fine, a state appeals court said Tuesday. Smock v. State of California, 2006 DJD...

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