Failing to properly vet his client’s case has landed a Pittsburgh lawyer with a $20,000 sanction from a federal judge.
Although Jason Schiffman, of Schiffman & Wojdowski, told the court that he had reasonably relied on his client and brought a case under the mistaken belief that he could rely on the product malfunction theory in a case stemming from an allegedly malfunctioning gun, the judge disagreed.
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