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WOODRUFF v. TOMLIN

No. 77-1216.

616 F.2d 924 (1980)

Joan WOODRUFF; Patricia Woodruff Hamilton and Louis Hamilton, her husband, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Hewitt P. TOMLIN, Jr.; Homer H. Waldrop; Roy Hall; and David R. Farmer, Individually and as Partners doing business under the name and style of Waldrop, Hall, Tomlin & Farmer, a Professional Business Association, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 21, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Herring, Robert Stephan, Jr., Phoenix, Ariz., James F. Schaeffer, Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Leo E. Bearman, Jr., John Thomason, Memphis, Tenn., for defendants-appellees.

Wilson Sims, Nashville, Tenn., Jac Chambliss, Chattanooga, Tenn., for amicus Tennessee Bar Association.

Thomas R. Prewitt, Armstrong, Allen, Braden, Goodman, McBride & Prewitt, Memphis, Tenn., for amicus Memphis & Shelby County Bar Association, Inc.

Before EDWARDS, Chief Judge, and WEICK, CELEBREZZE, LIVELY, ENGEL, KEITH and MERRITT, Circuit Judges.

LIVELY, Circuit Judge.

This case involves a claim of legal malpractice arising from the manner in which the defendants handled litigation on behalf of the plaintiffs in the Tennessee state courts. Jurisdiction of the district court was based on diversity of citizenship. The district court severed the plaintiffs' claims based on alleged conflict of interests in the defendants' representation of multiple parties. The district court also ordered a bifurcated jury trial...

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