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ESTATE OF KEATINGE v. BIDDLE

No. 02-1317.

316 F.3d 7 (2002)

ESTATE OF Murray KEATINGE, Cecelia Cole as Executrix, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Elizabeth H. BIDDLE, Strout & Payson, P.A., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 1, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Bowie with whom Robert C. Hatch and Thompson & Bowie, LLP were on brief, for appellants.

Lee H. Bals with whom Marcus, Clegg & Mistretta, P.A. was on brief, for appellee.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and LYNCH, Circuit Judges.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

A federal jury in Maine found that a lawyer and her law firm had simultaneously represented Murray Keatinge and another person with interests adverse to Murray (his son Kent) and then compounded the problem by suing Murray on behalf of Kent. For this breach of an attorney's duty of loyalty and care, the jury awarded damages of $660,000. The defense of attorney Elizabeth Biddle and the firm of Strout & Payson was that they had never represented...

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