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OLIVER v. TOWNS

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738 So.2d 798 (1999)

Beatrice E. OLIVER v. Patricia TOWNS.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied June 11, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beatrice E. Oliver, appellant, pro se.

James G. Bodin and Julian McPhillips of McPhillips, Shinbaum, Gill & Stoner, L.L.P., Montgomery, for appellee.

SEE, Justice.

In this legal-malpractice action concerning the misuse of a $12,000 settlement, the trial court entered a default judgment against attorney Beatrice E. Oliver and in favor of her former client Patricia Towns. The trial court awarded Towns $500,000 in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages. The trial judge denied Oliver's subsequent motion that the judge recuse himself from the case and denied Oliver's motion for a thorough review of...

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