{"id":540,"date":"2013-11-12T22:14:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T22:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2021-12-21T20:04:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:04:59","slug":"mississippi-supreme-court-reverses-103-million-legal-malpractice-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/mississippi-supreme-court-reverses-103-million-legal-malpractice-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Supreme Court orders new trial on proximate cause and damages after $103 million legal malpractice verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Graham\">Christopher Graham<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Kelly\">Joseph Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mississippi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mississippi-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mississippi\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-541\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mississippi-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mississippi-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mississippi.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mississippi Supreme Court recently reversed a $103 million legal malpractice verdict against Baker &amp; McKenzie, LLP and Baker attorney Joel Held and remanded for a new trial on proximate cause and damages.  <em>See<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/courts.ms.gov\/Images\/Opinions\/CO80283.pdf\"><em>Baker &amp; McKenzie, LLP, et al v. Evans, et al<\/em>, Case No. 2011-CA-01110-SCT (Oct. 17, 2013)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lavon Evans and his companies obtained a verdict against Baker &amp; McKenzie and Held in 2010 for, collectively, $103 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed the firm and Held&#8217;s liability for conflict of interest and breach of fiduciary duty but reversed the verdict and remanding for a new trial on proximate cause and damages because of faulty jury instructions.<\/p>\n<p>Tags: Mississippi, legal malpractice, conflict of interest, proximate cause<\/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 Graham and Joseph Kelly The Mississippi Supreme Court recently reversed a $103 million legal malpractice verdict against Baker &amp; McKenzie, LLP and Baker attorney Joel Held and remanded for a new trial on proximate cause and damages. See Baker &amp; McKenzie, LLP, et al v. Evans, et al, Case No. 2011-CA-01110-SCT (Oct. 17, [&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":6,"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\/540"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}