Jewell v. Fletcher

In a remarkable decision, the majority has remanded this case to the trial court for a second time and held that the Sims Estate (Sims) is entitled to “relief’ on its claim and that the trial court should “fashion the appropriate remedy.” The remedy Sims wants, based on the 2008 hearing before the trial court, is to unwind a distribution of money to the law firm partners (partners) that occurred more than three years ago and to require a disgorgement of those assets so that Sims’s claim may be satisfied. The trial court, of course, has already refused to do this in its order dated December 9,…