Legal Opinion
Pietrangelo v. Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, LLP
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided April 11, 2013No. 11-CV-1067PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY, Associate Judge:
Appellant James E. Pietrangelo, II, a licensed attorney acting pro se, brought an action for legal malpractice and an array of other alleged wrongs against appellee Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, LLP (hereinafter “WilmerHale”) for conduct related to WilmerHale’s pro bono representation of Pietrangelo and others in a challenge to the since-repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) statute,1 which regulated the treatment of gays in the military. Pietrangelo’s complaint contains twenty-three separate counts. Judge Thomas J. Motley dismissed twenty of these…
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