After saying goodbye to a $51 million jury verdict and losing a bid to disqualify opposing counsel at Sidley Austin, crime novelist Patricia Cornwell has decided to take her fight against her former financial advisers to a federal appeals court.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge George O’Toole in Boston granted a final judgment clearing Anchin Block & Anchin and former Cornwell finance manager Evan Snapper of claims that they mismanaged the best-selling author’s fortune. Joan Lukey of Choate, Hall & Stewart, who represents Cornwell, had requested the judgment in the face of a possible retrial in the case after O’Toole threw out an earlier $50.9 million jury verdict in her favor.
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