Just days before its January 3 trial start date, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius was successful in getting a legal malpractice case against it over an allegedly-botched real estate finance deal tossed on summary judgment.

In TCA Girard v. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Morgan Lewis and partners Eric Stern and Michael Pedrick renewed late last year its previously failed motion for summary judgment after Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Albert J. Snite Jr. barred plaintiff TCA Girard from using portions of expert witness Lawrence M. Goodman’s report at trial.