AFG Loses Bid To Amend A&R Malpractice Suit

By Erin Coe

Law360, New York (October 22, 2009, 2:41 PM ET) -- A magistrate judge has found that Asset Funding Group LLC missed a deadline to tack on an allegation related to environmental damages in its suit against Adams & Reese LLP over the law firm’s alleged conflict of interest representing the company during the 2005 bankruptcy and asset sale of Evans Industries LLC.

Magistrate Judge Karen Wells Roby of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Tuesday denied AFG’s bid to file a third amended complaint in order to assert that, in addition...
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