Commercial Litigation and Arbitration

August 22, 2008

The plaintiff trust beneficiary alleged that his sister and her lawyer (who also represented the trust) comprised an association-in-fact RICO enterprise pillaging the trust. The Ninth Circuit held that the lawyer could not be held liable under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) because her rendering of legal services did not satisfy the operation-and-management test of Reves ...
The plaintiff trust beneficiary alleged that his sister and her lawyer (who also represented the trust) comprised an association-in-fact RICO enterprise pillaging the trust. The Ninth Circuit held that the lawyer could not be held liable under 18 U.S.C. §…

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