Apportionment Ruling Slashes Alston & Bird's $2M Legal-Mal Award to $700K
The jury split liability three ways, finding the law firm liable for 32 percent of the damages, interests and attorney fees in the underlying case.
May 24, 2018 at 05:53 PM
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It appears a legal malpractice lawsuit against Alston & Bird will once again offer the Court of Appeals of Georgia an opportunity to define the limits of the state's apportionment statute.
In February, Alston & Bird was hit with a verdict of more than $2 million in damages and fees following a two-week legal-malpractice trial. But jurors apportioned the bulk of the damages to a nonparty in a decision that left lawyers on each side arguing over the breakdown.
Alston & Bird's lawyers argued the total post-apportionment award was around $700,000, while the plaintiffs lawyers said the firm was liable for nearly all of the more than $2 million judgment.
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