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Litigation

May 5, 2017

Lawyers don't owe ex-client back pay for paralegal work

A Los Angeles jury determined on Thursday that attorneys Steven Wyner and Marcy Tiffany did not owe a former client back wages for her services as a paralegal on a previous case, ending a contentious 12-year legal battle that traveled multiple times through the appellate court and once to the California Supreme Court.

By Eli Wolfe
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - A jury concluded Thursday that attorneys Steven Wyner and Marcy Tiffany do not owe a former client back wages for her services as a paralegal on a previous case, ending a contentious 12-year legal battle that traveled multiple times to the appellate court and once to the state Supreme Court.

The jury found that Deborah Porter was never an employee of the law f...

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