A federal court in Boston is the proper venue for a Long Island genetics laboratory’s legal malpractice claim against a former Ropes & Gray attorney who allegedly botched a patent application the lab contends was potentially worth tens of millions of dollars, a federal judge has ruled.
Eastern District Judge Arthur D. Spatt said in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory v. Ropes & Gray, 20-cv-661, that venue has generally been determined in such malpractice actions based on where an attorney’s improper conduct allegedly occurred, not where the injured parties were located at the time.
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