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Trusts & Estates

Jan. 31, 2004

Death Trap

Forum Column - By James C. Turner and Suzanne M. Mishkin - In a proposal of breathtaking scope, State Bar members are pushing new approaches that effectively would immunize estate planners from malpractice liability. To avoid what is, at best, a speculative exposure, the bar's trusts and estates section is trying to change drastically the rules for filing legal-malpractice actions arising out of estate-planning negligence.

        Forum Column
        
        By James C. Turner and Suzanne M. Mishkin
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