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Seattle, WA: (Sep-18-07) Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho (TKS), a manufacturer of large newspaper printing presses, brought a lawsuit against two Washington-based Perkins Coie partners, Yoshihiro Saito, an international trade litigation lawyer, and Barry Reingold, an antitrust litigation lawyer, accusing them of malpractice. The Japanese company sued two of the firm's Washington-based partners for malpractice in February 2006 stemming from work they did in a legal dispute involving anti-dumping laws. Saito brought TKS to Perkins Coie as a client in 1998, when he joined as a partner from Graham & James. TKS filed its claim against Perkins Coie, which has more than 580 lawyers, after losing an anti-dumping suit that forced the company to pay $31 million in damages to Goss International Corp., a competitor in the printing industry.
The Japanese company claims that it lost the case when a privileged document was negligently handed over to Goss. In the malpractice suit, TKS also sought the reimbursement of more than $3 million in attorney fees and more than $100 million in compensatory and punitive damages. In a settlement reached, Perkins Coie agreed to pay former client Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho $19 million to settle the malpractice suit. [LAW.COM: LEGAL MALPRACTICE]
Published on Sep-19-07
The Japanese company claims that it lost the case when a privileged document was negligently handed over to Goss. In the malpractice suit, TKS also sought the reimbursement of more than $3 million in attorney fees and more than $100 million in compensatory and punitive damages. In a settlement reached, Perkins Coie agreed to pay former client Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho $19 million to settle the malpractice suit. [LAW.COM: LEGAL MALPRACTICE]
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