Civil Litigation,
Law Practice
May 20, 2019
Odd turns of malpractice trial include lawyer reading British tabloid
Minutes before a malpractice trial recessed Friday, a defense attorney for Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP began reading to the jury excerpts of a newspaper article about crimes allegedly committed by the firm's former client, a disbarred British solicitor.
LOS ANGELES -- Minutes before a malpractice trial recessed Friday, a defense attorney for Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP began reading to the jury excerpts of a newspaper article about crimes allegedly committed by the firm's former client, a disbarred British solicitor.
"The doors have been thrown wide open," to tell the jury what Britain's Daily Mail had written that got the plaintiff disbarred in his home country, Edwards Wildman's a...
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