A law firm beat a legal malpractice suit stemming from an allegedly negligent failure to negotiate a contract with firm handling cleanup from an oil spill.
Foster Garvey PC and Kenneth Lederman were retained by Tumwater Development LLC in connection with a spill of transformer cooling oil, which contained toxic polychlorinated biphenyls, into the Deschutes River.
Tumwater was ordered to pay $11,370,425 in cleanup costs in the underlying action.
In January, Tumwater sued Lederman and Foster Garvey alleging they failed negotiate a contract with waterway cleanup contractor Cowlitz Clean Sweep, which purportedly required amended terms in the form of more ...
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