A recently filed legal malpractice suit alleges that, even after an attorney missed a deadline to respond to a demand letter, he told his client that the opposing counsel was “fine” with granting an extension to reply—despite never having spoken to that lawyer.

Then, according to the suit, when a lawsuit was filed, now-former Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith partner Edward McAfee missed the deadline to respond to it, too.

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