Law Practice
May 20, 2010
The Dangers Attorneys Face
Despite best efforts, sometimes the courts just get it wrong.
Timothy D. Reuben
Reuben MediationTim Reuben spent more than 40 years handling complex legal disputes in California's state and federal courts. As the founder and managing partner of Reuben Raucher & Blum in Los Angeles, he has worked on a wide range of matters through jury and bench trials, arbitration, mediation, judicial reference, and settlement conferences across multiple areas of civil law, including commercial, real estate, construction, employment, intellectual property, insurance, professional liability, and unfair competition.
Litigators have nightmares, acid reflux, and perpetual bouts of insecurity because despite their best efforts, sometimes the courts just get it wrong. Sadly, that is what happened to Manatt in the just published malicious prosecution case of Franklin Mint Co. v Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, 2010 DJDAR 6539. In a divided opinion, the 2nd District Court of Appeal reversed Judge Warren Ettinger's directed verdict that Manatt had objective probable cause to sue Franklin Mint and went...
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