Capozzi v. Latsha & Capozzi, P.C.

¶ 1 Appellants Latsha & Capozzi, P.C.; Kimber L. Latsha; Glenn R. Davis; and Douglas C. Yohe appeal from the trial court’s February 27, 2001, order granting appellee Louis J. Capozzi, Jr.’s post-trial motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, and awarding him a new trial on the specified issue of damages. For the following reasons, we affirm.

¶ 2 The trial court aptly summarized the facts of the case as follows:

In 1994, Louis Capozzi and Kimber Latsha worked as attorneys for the Cumberland County law firm Shumaker & Williams. They left Shumaker & Williams, and on May 23, 1994,…