A state appeals court in Los Angeles on Friday reinstated a professional negligence claim against a prominent privacy lawyer accused of not warning a client about the state’s anti-SLAPP statute.

The Second District Court of Appeal said former United Kingdom solicitor Shahrokh Mireskandari should have a chance to argue that Dominique Shelton Leipzig and her former firm, Edwards Wildman Palmer, failed to advise him of the significant financial costs he risked by suing the London-based Daily Mail in California.

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