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CRIST v. LOYACONO

No. 2009-CA-01547-SCT.

65 So.3d 837 (2011)

Peggy CRIST, Theresea Edwards, Patricia Guthrie, Jane Hamilton, Helen Heard, Bertha Mixon, Jennie Parker, James Reed, Jr., Glenda Rivers, Pamela Robinson, Karen Thornton, Virginia Townsend, Vera Wells, Mary Whittington, Linda Williams and Peggy Winters v. Paul Kelly LOYACONO and E. Scott Verhine.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied July 28, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Minyard , Oxford, Tiffany Leigh Kilpatrick , attorneys for appellants.

Glenn Gates Taylor , Christy Michelle Sparks , Ridgeland, attorneys for appellees.

Before WALLER, C.J., DICKINSON, P.J., and KITCHENS, J.

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. Sixteen former clients sued two lawyers who had represented them in mass-tort litigation, claiming the lawyers had breached their fiduciary duty by prematurely settling their cases in order to maximize attorney fees. Responding to a motion for summary judgment, the former clients produced a witness—a mass-tort lawyer whom the defendant lawyers had associated, and then fired—who testified that he...

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