Seyfarth Shaw Wins Malpractice Case in Jury Trial
Jurors ruled for Seyfarth Shaw on Monday in a malpractice case that alleged the law firm didn’t do enough to protect a client from employment judgments.
A 13-member jury found no liability after all the parties agreed that the alternate could join deliberations, the National Law Journal reports.
The suit by ex-client PCG Trading blamed Seyfarth for successor liability in an employment case. PCG Trading had purchased the assets of Converge Inc. in 2003. In 2007, PCG was hit with a $3.32 million judgment in a suit to enforce a woman’s bias judgments against Converge. The judge in the case had ruled that PCG’s acquisition of Converge was a “de factor merger.”
PCG had alleged Seyfarth previously represented Converge and signaled that PCG was a successor company by also representing PCG.
