"A corporation's guilty plea for bribing a foreign official does not bar a subsequent malpractice action against the lawyer who allegedly advised that the bribery would not violate federal law, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. Reinstating a dismissed claim against attorney Phillippe S.E. Schrieber, Judge Robert D. Sack said the company's guilty plea does not prevent it from claiming that it was the victim of malpractice in relying on the attorney's advice," the New York Law Journal says here.