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SIERRA FRIA CORP. v. EVANS

No. 97-1294.

127 F.3d 175 (1997)

SIERRA FRIA CORP. and Rodrigo Rocha, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. DONALD J. EVANS, P.C., et al. (Goodwin, Procter & Hoar), Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 9, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen L. Braga, with whom Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, L.L.P. was on brief, Washington, DC, for plaintiffs, appellants.

David S. Blatt, with whom John K. Villa, Williams & Connolly, James J. Dillon, and Goodwin, Procter & Hoar were on brief, Washington, DC, for defendants, appellees.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN and CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

St. Ambrose is said to have advised St. Augustine that "[w]hen ... at Rome, live in the Roman style." John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations 113 (Justin Kaplan ed., 16th ed.1992). In this case, the defendants, a Boston law firm and its constituent partners (hereinafter collectively Goodwin, Procter), counselled their erstwhile clients that when acquiring real estate in Aruba there were material risks associated with doing so in the Aruban...

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