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The severity of punishment from the Board of Bar Overseers typically depends on precedents from earlier cases. But the board has not had a case before it in recent memory with a comparable set of circumstances, lawyers said.
Lawyer for firm The Appeals Court has ruled that a couple’s legal malpractice claim alleging negligent settlement advice in a medical malpractice case should have been disposed of on summary judgment for lack of competent evidence that different representation would have secured a better result. The defendant law firm, Boston’s Lubin & Meyer, represented plaintiffs