https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/12/clarification-flatley-11-million-settlement/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:46:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/12/clarification-flatley-11-million-settlement/comment-page-1/#comment-9874 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?

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/12/clarification-flatley-11-million-settlement/comment-page-1/#comment-9873 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.

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