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Olga Pavlovna Blakley v. Milling, Benson, Woodward, L.L.P.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 20-20425 · judgment October 20, 2020


Certiorari denied · January 10, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

In a suit alleging an ongoing scheme, affecting multiple clients, over a period of more than ten years, of legal malpractice, and judicial bias based in part on at least nine judges being clients of the law firm in criminal cases in New Orleans, and a summary judgement issued without review of the evidence, which was overturned on appeal, is an out of state law firm subject specific in personam jurisdiction in the client’s home state, where she signed the representation agreement there, she was to perform her contractual obligations there, the law firm regularly sent written and electronic communications to her there, and the majority of the damages she alleges occurred there?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Olga Pavlovna Blakley

For respondent
Chadwick William Collings
Milling Benson Woodward, L.L.P.

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jan 10 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 08 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/7/2022.
  3. Nov 19 2021
    Brief of respondent Milling Benson Woodward LLP in opposition filed.
  4. Jun 18 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 19, 2021)