Lawyer who used Legora says wrong draft with bad citations was filed in Cutera case
A federal judge discharged the show-cause order on October 28th after Cutera counsel said a corrected Legora draft existed but the wrong PDF was filed.
By Ryan Merket · Published
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Why it matters
The order describes a draft with bad citations and a corrected draft that never reached the court. Judge Hixson left the Rule 11 duty with counsel, disregarded the challenged authorities, and gave Legora a named appearance in a federal filing two weeks after its $550 million Series E at an $8.8 billion valuation.
A lawyer for Cutera told a federal judge she used Legora to draft a motion to dismiss, checked the citations in Westlaw, corrected the errors she found, and then filed the wrong version anyway.…
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