Professional Malpractice

City of Inglewood :
B & C represented the City of Inglewood in a legal malpractice case against its former law firm and in an insurance coverage action against the City's excess liability carrier for denial of coverage resulting from an adverse verdict in reverse racial discrimination case against the City. The City filed both cases in Superior Court in the County of Los Angeles. The City claimed its former attorneys' representation in the underlying case fell below the standard of care and that the City's excess insurance liability carrier should have reimbursed defense costs and indemnified on the adverse judgment in the amounts in excess of the City's self insured retention. B & C directed and coordinated the strategy in these parallel but separate lawsuits and achieved favorable pre-trial settlements in both cases within about a month of one another.

Classic Corporation: 
B&C represented a now defunct waterbed mattress company in a legal malpractice case against its former law firm.  Plaintiff alleged that the defendant law firm failed to dispense proper advice to the plaintiff so that it could make a fully informed evaluation of a settlement offer in the underlying antitrust case.  The parties settled during trial.  The terms of the settlement are confidential.