Legal Opinion
Porter v. Berall
District Court, W.D. Missouri
Decided June 5, 2001No. 00-1028-CV-W-6PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SACHS, District Judge.
This legal malpractice case was brought against Connecticut lawyers by the trustees of a family trust registered in Missouri. It is contended (without dispute) that the late Reverend Porter, the father of the three trustees, and trustee Boone Porter III (a resident of Kansas with law offices in Missouri) sought assistance from defendants in September, 1996, to amend a 1990 trust instrument to assure, among other things, that any tax exposure in Connecticut would be eliminated or minimized. Two months before execution of the trust amendment in…
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