Professional Malfeasance

GMSR has successfully represented lawyers, accountants, trustees, and other professionals accused of a wide range of malfeasance, and we are intimately familiar the ins and outs of appeals from anti-SLAPP proceedings.

Shelden v. Grossman (Oct. 3, 2006, B184270) 2006 WL 2808155 [nonpublished opinion]

GMSR appellate lawyers Ted Xanders and Robin Meadow were responsible for the victory in this legal malpractice/fraud action against a law firm. The plaintiff alleged that the firm had helped its client, the plaintiff’s stepfather, to induce the plaintiff’s mother to leave all her property

Sep 20, 2006 Related Cases
Hughes v. Reynolds (Sept. 20, 2006, A108283) 2006 WL 2687001 [nonpublished opinion]

Probate court’s independent discretion over custodial accounts established under Uniform Transfer to Minors Act

Sep 20, 2006 Related Cases
In re Estate of Hughes (Sept. 20, 2006, A109497) 2006 WL 2686989 [nonpublished opinion]

Propriety of trustee accountings and asserted violations of trust; executors’ asserted gross negligence in paying claims against estate

Fremont Indem. Co. v. Fremont Gen. Corp. (2006) 143 Cal.App.4th 50

Lawyer not disqualified where he represented both parties while they were adverse in a third action

Marshall v. Marshall (2006) 547 U.S. 293

Claims based on interference with an inter vivos trust do not fall within the “probate” exception to federal jurisdiction

Sep 10, 2004 Related Cases
Bank of the West v. Lewschin (Sept. 10, 2004, B174128) 2004 WL 2011451 [nonpublished opinion]

Whether beneficiary’s objections to trustee’s accounting barred by prior probate rulings

Rosenblum v. Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan (Nov. 30, 2004, B173793)

Legal malpractice in negotiating acquisition agreement (settled before decision)

Black v. Yuja (Mar. 25, 2003, B152979) 2003 WL 1521993 [nonpublished opinion]

Obtaining reversal for doctor in medical malpractice case

Jun 01, 2000 Related Cases
Marshall v. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (2000, B137062)

Tolling of statute of limitations pending outcome of underlying action

Jun 01, 1998 Related Cases
Marshall v. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (1998, B114188)

Legal malpractice – representing both partnership and one of its partners in drafting a partnership compensation plan

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