Law Practice,
Corporate
Jul. 30, 2010
How Does a Lawyer Know Who Speaks for a Corporate Client?
Courts should not punish a lawyer who acts reasonably and ethically, but is understandably fooled by the confusion of family machinations.
Timothy D. Reuben
Founder and CEO, Reuben, Raucher & Blum
Phone: (310) 777-1990
Email: treuben@rrbattorneys.com
Reuben is the founder and CEO at Reuben Raucher & Blum. Alongside his extensive career as a civil litigator specializing in complex matters at both the trial and appellate level, he serves pro bono as a temporary judge and settlement officer for the Los Angeles Superior Court, as well as a fee arbitrator for the LA County Bar.
Can a lawyer follow the specific directions of what appears to be an authorized client representative in a competent fashion and still be sued for malpractice and even for fraud? One would think not, and yet unfortunately that is what the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appears to have ruled in Mindy's Cosmetics Inc. v. Sonya Dakar, et al. 2010 DJDAR 10457. In this case there is both good and bad news for lawyers. The good news is that in an appeal from denial of an anti-SLAPP m...
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