Law Practice
Apr. 6, 2011
Anthony Pellicano Strikes Again and Lawyers Are the Losers
Lawyers may be held responsible for their client's illegal actions even if they were not directly complicit.
Timothy D. Reuben
Reuben MediationTim Reuben spent more than 40 years handling complex legal disputes in California's state and federal courts. As the founder and managing partner of Reuben Raucher & Blum in Los Angeles, he has worked on a wide range of matters through jury and bench trials, arbitration, mediation, judicial reference, and settlement conferences across multiple areas of civil law, including commercial, real estate, construction, employment, intellectual property, insurance, professional liability, and unfair competition.
In yet another case created by the antics of Anthony Pellicano, this one involving an anti-SLAPP appeal, the 2nd District Court of Appeal has found that "[t]he bottom line is this: [Civil Code of Procedure Section] 425.16 was not enacted to protect an attorney who allegedly hired an 'investigator' like Anthony Pellicano to wiretap telephones so as to get an unfair advantage in a client's legal matters." Gerbosi v. Gaims, Weil, West & Epstein, 2011 DJDAR 3619 (2011). Sadly, thi...
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