California Lawyers Liable for Continuing Unmeritorious Claims

On Monday, the California Supreme Court ruled that “an attorney may be held liable for continuing to prosecute a lawsuit discovered to lack probable cause”. We have attached a copy of the decision in Zamos v. Stroud.

Not the law in Ontario (we don’t think!) but, as is often the case with U.S. jurisprudence, perhaps a harbinger of things to come…

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