A girl is dead. And the civil trial against Jane Wagner, the driver who hit her, has come down to this: Was Wagner a lawyer or a client at the moment her car struck 15-year-old Naeun Yoon?
Next week, a Loudoun County, Va., jury will be asked to answer that question. And if the jurors find that Wagner was acting as a lawyer -- speaking to a client on her cell phone -- they'll have to decide whether her law firm shares the blame. Wagner and her former firm, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Cooley Godward, face the prospect of sharing liability for the teen's death and for the $25 million Naeun's father, Young Ki Yoon, has demanded in compensation.
Details from Law.com here.