{"id":197,"date":"2006-05-24T21:07:05","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T02:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=197"},"modified":"2012-04-23T13:22:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T18:22:22","slug":"sleeping-through-legal-proceedings-is-not-malpractice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/sleeping-through-legal-proceedings-is-not-malpractice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping Through Legal Proceedings is Not Malpractice???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York litigator Edward W. Hayes was accused of legal malpractice for sleeping through his client&#8217;s deposition. In 2003, Hayes was retained by Robert Flutie to defend companies he owned against a suit brought by the trustee of a bankruptcy involving Flutie&#8217;s <strong>brother<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A bankruptcy judge ultimately determined that Robert Flutie&#8217;s companies, Flutie Bros. and Flutie Entertainment USA, Inc., were successors to his brother&#8217;s bankrupt company Flutie Entertainment Corp. Robert Flutie was therefore on the hook for $191,089.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He sued Attorney Hayes, alleging that he didn&#8217;t prepare for the trial, and ultimately slept through most of Robert Flutie&#8217;s deposition. The judge has thrown out the case because in order to prevail, Robert Flutie would have to show that &#8220;but for&#8221; Hayes&#8217;s mistakes, the outcome of the proceedings would have been different. The judge determined that even if Hayes hadn&#8217;t slept through the deposition, the outcome would have still been the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York litigator Edward W. Hayes was accused of legal malpractice for sleeping through his client&#8217;s deposition. In 2003, Hayes was retained by Robert Flutie to defend companies he owned against a suit brought by the trustee of a bankruptcy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-3b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}