http://www.calblogofappeal.com/2008/07/15/a-disregard-for-fiduciary-duties-that-is-without-precedent/ Appellate Attorney Greg May on Practice and Developments in the Appellate Courts of California Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:33:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.calblogofappeal.com/2008/07/15/a-disregard-for-fiduciary-duties-that-is-without-precedent/comment-page-1/#comment-2978 Steve Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:18:21 +0000 http://www.calblogofappeal.com/?p=919#comment-2978 Mr. Pagkas could have made this a brilliant strategy rather than making himself a footnote in legal history and blackening his name forever with one simple change. After buying the right to the default judgment, go to Ed Mumbert and offer to file a notice of satisfaction in exchange for dropping the malpractice action and the appeal. The client is then undamaged by the alleged failures, no one owes anyone anything, and the attorney is out the money he paid for the rights to the damage award. But how much money would it be worth not to have his name forever associated with an unprecedented breach of professional ethics? Poor guy. This is a wooden stake in the heart. Mr. Pagkas could have made this a brilliant strategy rather than making himself a footnote in legal history and blackening his name forever with one simple change. After buying the right to the default judgment, go to Ed Mumbert and offer to file a notice of satisfaction in exchange for dropping the malpractice action and the appeal. The client is then undamaged by the alleged failures, no one owes anyone anything, and the attorney is out the money he paid for the rights to the damage award. But how much money would it be worth not to have his name forever associated with an unprecedented breach of professional ethics? Poor guy. This is a wooden stake in the heart.

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