SAN FRANCISCO Bay Area plaintiffs lawyer Terry O’Reilly is personally liable to pay his former partner a multi-million dollar judgment awarded in a long-running fee battle, a judge said in a tentative ruling.
Last year, Michael Danko won $3.2 million at trial on claims O’Reilly breached a contract that provided for Danko to receive 50 percent of fees he generated. Though the verdict was against O’Reilly’s now-defunct San Mateo firm, O’Reilly & Collins, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Marla Miller ruled Monday that O’Reilly should be held personally accountable as the legal alter ego of his eponymous law firm.
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