http://overlawyered.com/2007/12/clarification-flatley-11-million-settlement/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:26:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://overlawyered.com/2007/12/clarification-flatley-11-million-settlement/comment-page-1/#comment-9874 asg Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:46:13 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5648#comment-9874 The story I read said that the CA Supreme Court held that Mauro, the attorney, was guilty of extortion, but the language was confusing because the financial settlement implied that it was a tort. Any chance of clarification on this, as well as how common (more, more likely, uncommon) it is for courts to hold attorneys accountable in this way? The story I read said that the CA Supreme Court held that Mauro, the attorney, was guilty of extortion, but the language was confusing because the financial settlement implied that it was a tort. Any chance of clarification on this, as well as how common (more, more likely, uncommon) it is for courts to hold attorneys accountable in this way?

]]> http://overlawyered.com/2007/12/clarification-flatley-11-million-settlement/comment-page-1/#comment-9873 Walter Olson Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:12:18 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5648#comment-9873 Thanks for catching this. The idea of Robertson's having paid that kind of sum to settle was sufficiently bizarre that I checked a stack of early news reports, but they were all apparently based on the same erroneous wire story. Thanks for catching this. The idea of Robertson’s having paid that kind of sum to settle was sufficiently bizarre that I checked a stack of early news reports, but they were all apparently based on the same erroneous wire story.

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