Olga Pavlovna Blakley v. Milling, Benson, Woodward, L.L.P.
Arbitration DueProcess
Whether an out-of-state law firm is subject to specific in-personam jurisdiction in the client's home state, where the client signed the representation agreement, was to perform contractual obligations, and the majority of the alleged damages occurred
QUESTION PRESENTED In a suit alleging an ongoing scheme, affecting multiple clients, over a period of more than ten years, of legal malpractice, and judicial bias based in part on at least nine judges being clients of the law firm in | criminal cases in New Orleans, and a summary : | judgement issued without review of the evidence, which was overturned on appeal, is an out of state law firm subject specific in personam jurisdiction in the client’s home state, where she _ signed the representation agreement there, she was to perform her contractual obligations there, the law firm regularly sent written and electronic communications to her there, and the majority of the damages she alleges occurred there? , ii |