Keegan testified as an expert witness on behalf of an attorney and his law firm which had been sued by a former client who felt that he had lost a settlement opportunity because of the lawyer’s failure to disclose a settlement demand.  While the lawyer should have transmitted the demand, it was clear that his failure was not the cause of any loss to the plaintiff.  The defense prevailed.

A lawyer agreed to represent a plaintiff in a personal injury claim but failed to note that the foreign state’s statute of limitations, which is where the claim had to be filed, was only one year instead of the two years allowed in Georgia.  Keegan submitted an affidavit on behalf of the lawyer’s former Client, and the case was settled.

The Firm successfully defended a lawyer who had failed to respond to the State Bar’s disciplinary action against him, and was therefore about to be disbarred.  After appearing before the Disciplinary Committee at an emergency hearing, the Firm obtained a reprieve for the lawyer, and later showed that he was not guilty of the conflict of interest and the abuse of trust funds as he had been accused.  No disciplinary action was ever entered against him and he continues in his successful practice.

A law firm associate resigned without notice, and removed over 30 clients’ files to his new office without consulting the firm’s owners. The owners called F&H, and suit was filed the same day; a hearing resulted in an injunction requiring the lawyer to return the files immediately.