Legal Opinion
Shearman v. Asher
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided July 2, 2003No. 2003-CA-0152PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
| PATRICIA RIVET MURRAY, Judge.
This is an accounting malpractice action. The plaintiff, Robert Shearman, appeals from the trial court’s judgment granting the exception of res judicata filed by the defendants, Harold Asher and Katz & Asher, Ltd. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
In 1999, Robert F. Shearman, R. Ray Orrill, Jr., and Leslie Cordell decided to dissolve and liquidate the law firm of Or-rill, Shearman & Cordell, L.L.C. (“law firm”). Initially, Mr. Orrill acted as liquidator. On January 13, 2000, Harold Asher was appointed as judicial liquidator…
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