{"id":196,"date":"2013-05-15T15:12:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T15:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2021-12-21T20:05:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:05:41","slug":"lawyers-motion-to-strike-legal-malpractice-claim-under-california-anti-slapp-statute-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/lawyers-motion-to-strike-legal-malpractice-claim-under-california-anti-slapp-statute-denied\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer\u2019s motion to strike legal malpractice claim under California \u201canti-SLAPP\u201d statute denied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Graham\">Christopher J. Graham<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Kelly\">Joseph P. Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=4723668804420094540&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=lang_en&amp;as_sdt=2,14&amp;as_vis=1&amp;oi=scholaralrt\">Hayes v. Hutchinson, Case No. B237556 (Ca. Ct. App. 2nd Jan. 24, 2013) (unpublished)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Appellate court affirmed trial court\u2019s order denying defendant lawyer\u2019s anti-SLAPP motion to strike.  Defendant lawyer had been hired by the band \u201cLinkin Park\u201d to review royalty agreements negotiated by plaintiff lawyer.  Plaintiff lawyer sued defendant lawyer for defamation, trade libel and intentional interference with contractual relations based on statements made by defendant lawyer in an audit report critical of plaintiff lawyer\u2019s conduct.  Defendant lawyer filed a motion to strike under California\u2019s anti-SLAPP law which provides, in part, that statements made in anticipation of litigation are protected speech.  Here, defendant lawyer claimed that his report was a statement in anticipation of litigation because he was asked to prepare it by a legal malpractice attorney retained by the band.  But defendant lawyer ultimately failed to meet his burden that the statements were made in anticipation of litigation because the evidence showed that the band didn\u2019t have plans to sue plaintiff lawyer.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Christopher J. Graham and Joseph P. Kelly Hayes v. Hutchinson, Case No. B237556 (Ca. Ct. App. 2nd Jan. 24, 2013) (unpublished) Appellate court affirmed trial court\u2019s order denying defendant lawyer\u2019s anti-SLAPP motion to strike. Defendant lawyer had been hired by the band \u201cLinkin Park\u201d to review royalty agreements negotiated by plaintiff lawyer. Plaintiff lawyer [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}