Law Firms Fight Over Blame in Patent Failure:


Facing a negligence suit by an ex-client, Coudert Brothers is trying to deflect blame to the next place the client took its business: Duane Morris. Coudert is trying to persuade a Superior Court judge to order Duane Morris or former partner Edward Lynch to pay up if Coudert loses or settles SenoRx's suit alleging the firm missed some patent-filing deadlines that cost it money. That strategy, of course, hasn't sat well with Duane Morris, which has requested that Coudert's indemnity suit be thrown out.