The state Superior Court has upheld the grant of summary judgment to Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and some of its partners in a legal malpractice case involving a $112.5 million real-estate finance deal.
Morgan Lewis had the case against it thrown out in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in December 2012 after it successfully argued the plaintiffs’ expert report was speculative and should be barred at trial. Morgan Lewis, and co-defendants and firm attorneys Eric L. Stern and Michael Pedrick, argued the plaintiffs, referred to collectively as TCA Girard, could not prove proximate causation between their loss of the Philadelphia property at issue—Girard Square—and Morgan Lewis’ legal advice and representation.
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