Law Practice,
Corporate
Jul. 30, 2010
How Does a Lawyer Know Who Speaks for a Corporate Client?
Courts should not punish a lawyer who acts reasonably and ethically, but is understandably fooled by the confusion of family machinations.
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.
Can a lawyer follow the specific directions of what appears to be an authorized client representative in a competent fashion and still be sued for malpractice and even for fraud? One would think not, and yet unfortunately that is what the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appears to have ruled in Mindy's Cosmetics Inc. v. Sonya Dakar, et al. 2010 DJDAR 10457. In this case there is both good and bad news for lawyers. The good news is that in an appeal from denial of an anti-SLAPP m...
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