A New Jersey lawyer who lost a case at trial that another attorney took over and worked to a $1.5 million recovery didn’t make out a claim for tortious interference, a state appeals court says.

The record “clearly lacks the facts and circumstances that would give rise to the ‘rare circumstance,’…that would support a viable claim for tortious interference against another attorney,” the Appellate Division held on April 25.

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