A Philadelphia-area lawyer has been hit with $1.75 million in punitive damages over claims he filed a frivolous lawsuit that had accused a former Cozen O’Connor attorney of conspiring to loot his mother-in-law’s trust.
Colorado attorney John F. Brown Jr. won a $2.3 million award Sept. 30 in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas over allegations that Drexel Hill attorney Mark S. Halpern of Halpern & Levy sued him in an attempt to pressure Brown into amending his mother-in-law’s trust.
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