Apr. 13, 2026
Jury awards $31M to lawyer in firm ownership dispute
A Sacramento jury found a law firm partner was wrongfully removed during a temporary conservatorship, awarding more than $31 million in damages and restoring his ownership stake.
A Sacramento jury has awarded $31 million to an attorney who claimed he was improperly frozen out of the firm he founded two decades earlier.
Duane C. Miller sued his former partner, Michael D. Axline, in 2023. He claimed Axline wrongfully took control of their law firm while Miller was temporarily under a court-ordered conservatorship. Miller alleged Axline falsely claimed he was mentally unfit and used that to remove him from leadership, take his shares and make himself the sole...
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