Legal Opinion
Estate of Keatinge v. Biddle
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 1, 2002No. 02-1317PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
A federal jury in Maine found that a lawyer and her law firm had simultaneously represented Murray Keatinge and another person with interests adverse to Murray (his son Kent) and then compounded the problem by suing Murray on behalf of Kent. For this breach of an attorney’s duty of loyalty and care, the jury awarded damages of $660,000. The defense of attorney Elizabeth Biddle and the firm of Strout & Payson was that they had never represented Murray Keatinge; rather, they had only represented Kent: they had represented Kent in the exercise of the power of attorney…
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