One way to look at a legal malpractice lawsuit filed against McKenna Long & Aldridge last week is that the firm’s former client has an uphill battle. After all, the client prevailed in the epic patent battle for which it hired the firm.

But the client’s new lawyers claim that big mistakes by McKenna forced the client to bring in King & Spalding to clean up the mess, so McKenna should pay more than $3.5 million. That’s all of what the client paid to McKenna, plus some of what it paid King & Spalding.

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