Lawyer Who Opposed Firm’s Merger Sees Malpractice Claim Rejected

Sept. 1, 2023, 4:39 PM UTC

An Indiana appeals court declined to revive a derivative malpractice lawsuit filed by a shareholder in a consumer collections law firm against against outside lawyers hired to assist his office’s merger with a larger practice.

The Court of Appeals of Indiana said on Thursday that Glenn Vician’s claims against the firm Bingham Greenbaum & Doll LLP were not only time-barred, but lacked merit.

Vician sued BGD in April 2018, three years after his collection firm, Bowman Heintz Boscia & Vician PC, completed an asset sale to a larger out-of-state firm, and paid him for his shares in BHBV.

Vician had ...

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