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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Feb. 5, 2002

Third Party

Legal Malpractice Practitioner Column - By Alec H. Boyd - California insurance-defense counsel and insurers should take note of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in Glenn K. Jackson Inc. dba Jackson & Donahue v. Roe, 2001 DJDAR 12835 (9th Cir. Dec. 11, 2001). In Jackson, the 9th Circuit held that a third-party auditor hired by an insurer to audit its insured's defense counsel does not owe the law firm a duty to conduct the audit in a non-negligent fashion.

        Legal Malpractice Practitioner Column
        
        By Alec H. Boyd
        
        California insurance-defense counsel and insurers should take note of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in Glenn K. Jackson I...

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