Legal Opinion
Yaquinto v. Segerstrom
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 30, 2001No. 00-10216PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:
Robert Yaquinto, Jr., as trustee of Kayla Segerstrom’s Chapter 7 bankruptcy estate, appeals from a summary judgment in favor of defendants Touchstone, Bernays, Johnston, Beall & Smith L.L.P. and Employers Fire Insurance Company on the estate’s legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract claims. Yaquinto also appeals the district court’s denial of the estate’s motion to compel discovery of certain communications between Kayla Segerstrom and her attorneys. We AFFIRM.
Factual AND PROCEDURAL Background
In 1995, Kayla Segerstrom, then 17 years old,…
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