The firm of McManimon & Scotland must pay a $100,000 malpractice award stemming from a failed real estate deal, an appeals court ruled on Tuesday while throwing out a related $900,000 verdict against its client: the Newark school district.
An Essex County jury had held the Newark law firm liable to a developer for an opinion letter by one of its lawyers that the district had met its legal obligations in entering a lease.
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