Greenberg Traurig will not be able to avoid trial in an 11-year-old attorney deceit case facing the firm in New York. A judge set a trial date for next April, after denying the firm’s bid to have more summary judgment arguments.
Former hedge fund manager James Melcher, now 79, is suing Greenberg Traurig and a former shareholder, Leslie Corwin, claiming attorney deceit under Judiciary Law Section 487. Melcher claims Greenberg and Corwin colluded with their client, an adversary of Melcher, to deceive the court by presenting a “phony” contract amendment in an underlying case and then claiming the document was accidentally burned by the Greenberg client while making tea.
