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Aug. 1, 2010

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"Admittedly the law frowns on an attorney's neglect to comply with a clear rule. However, it positively glowers at another attorney's exploitation of such neglect as an excuse to break his word."

-California Court of Appeal Judge Betty A. Richli writing in Ron Burns Constr. Co., Inc. v. Moore (184 Cal. App. 4th 637 (2010)), in which the plaintiff's attorney failed to file documentation of an oral agreement, and the defendant's counsel subsequently denied the existence of ...

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