No. 21-565

Olga Pavlovna Blakley v. Milling, Benson, Woodward, L.L.P.

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-10-20
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: contract-location contractual-obligations damages damages-jurisdiction judicial-bias legal-malpractice out-of-state-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction representation-agreement
Latest Conference: 2022-01-07
Question Presented (from Petition)

In a suit alleging an ongoing scheme, affecting
multiple clients, over a period of more than ten years,
of legal malpractice, and judicial bias based in part on
at least nine judges being clients of the law firm in
criminal cases in New Orleans, and a summary
judgement issued without review of the evidence,
which was overturned on appeal, is an out of state law
firm subject specific in personam jurisdiction in the
client 's home state, where she signed the
representation agreement there, she was to perform
her contractual obligations there, the law firm
regularly sent written and electronic communications
to her there, and the majority of the damages she
alleges occurred there?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether an out-of-state law firm is subject to specific in-personam jurisdiction in the client's home state, where the client signed the representation agreement, was to perform contractual obligations, and the majority of the alleged damages occurred

Docket Entries

2022-01-10
Petition DENIED.
2021-12-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/7/2022.
2021-11-19
Brief of respondent Milling Benson Woodward LLP in opposition filed.
2021-06-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 19, 2021)

Attorneys

Milling Benson Woodward LLP
Chadwick William CollingsMilling Benson Woodward, L.L.P., Respondent
Olga Pavlovna Blakley
Olga Pavlovna Blakley — Petitioner