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By Bill Altreuter

The Court of Appeals says that Supreme Court properly exercised personal jurisdiction over defendants, an individual and corporation, both residents of California, who retained a New York attorney to represent the corporation in an action brought in an Oregon federal court because the defendants' retention and subsequent communications with the plaintiff, a New York lawyer, established a continuing attorney-client relationship and thereby constitute the transaction of business under CPLR 302(a)1). Fischbarg v. Doucet,et al.

Think about this- doesn't it kinda screw the New York bar out of doing transactional or consulting work for clients that might not want to subject themselves to the tender mercies of our courts?

Full post as published by Outside Counsel on December 20, 2007 (boomark / email).