DOE v. HAWKINS

No. 09-1184.

42 So.3d 1000 (2010)

Jane DOE v. Scott M. HAWKINS, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

June 9, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Shea , John Shea & Associates, Robin Rhodes , Attorney at Law, Lafayette, Louisiana, for Plaintiff/Appellant, Jane Doe.

Staci Knox Villemarette , Attorney at Law, Chris P. Villemarette , Marikatherine Sonnier , Attorneys at Law, Walter K. Jamison, III , Kraft, Gatz, Lane, Benjamin, L.L.C., Lafayette, Louisiana, for Defendant/Appellee, Hawkins & Villemarette, L.L.C.

Court composed of JIMMIE C. PETERS, ELIZABETH A. PICKETT, JAMES T. GENOVESE, SHANNON J. GREMILLION, and DAVID E. CHATELAIN, Judges.


CHATELAIN,* Judge.

In this tort case, the plaintiff, a law firm clerical employee, alleging that a lawyer-member of the law firm assaulted and raped her on the firm's premises after business hours, seeks to hold a two-person limited liability law firm liable. Finding that the plaintiff cannot establish the law firm1 owed her an independent duty in its capacity as her employer to protect her from the injury...

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