PALUMBO v. SHAPIRO

No. 2011-CA-0769.

81 So.3d 923 (2011)

Bonnie PALUMBO v. Stephen H. SHAPIRO, William A. Pigg, the Law Office of Joseph Charles Bartels, Joseph Charles Bartels, Michael Idoyaga and James Yates.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

December 14, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henna Ghafoor , David W. Bernberg , The Law Office of David W. Bernberg, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellant.

William E. Wright, Jr. , Charlotte C. Meade , Melissa M. Swabacker , Deutsch Kerrigan & Stiles, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, David S. Daly , Allen & Gooch, ALC, Metairie, LA, for Defendants/Appellees.

(Court composed of Judge JAMES F. McKAY, III, Judge TERRI F. LOVE, Judge PAUL A. BONIN).


PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.

In this lawsuit Bonnie Palumbo claims that several attorneys negligently failed to prevent an earlier lawsuit for personal injuries from becoming abandoned due to non-prosecution for more than three years. This lawsuit was tried before a jury, and the trial judge submitted a special verdict form to the jury. The jury completed the special verdict, but its answers to the special written questions were indisputably inconsistent with each other...

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