{"id":2501,"date":"2024-09-05T15:44:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T15:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/court-denies-arbitration-over-law-firms-failure-to-inform-client-of-clause\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T15:44:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T15:44:47","slug":"court-denies-arbitration-over-law-firms-failure-to-inform-client-of-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/court-denies-arbitration-over-law-firms-failure-to-inform-client-of-clause\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Denies Arbitration Over Law Firm&#8217;s Failure to Inform Client of Clause"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Settling an arbitration dispute between a former client and a Kansas City-area law firm, an Illinois appellate court concluded a legal-malpractice action could proceed\u00a0because the attorneys failed to review an arbitration provision in their attorney-client agreement.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.net\/antilles-resources\/resources\/8492cd6d-af3c-4c98-8f03-6e9edfddc02d\/Dick-Ipsen%20v.%20Humphre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Aug. 30 opinion<\/a>, the Illinois First District Appellate Court affirmed a Cook County judge\u2019s decision denying a motion to compel arbitration by the accused firm, Humphrey, Farrington &amp; McClain and its attorneys, allowing claims brought by a former client, Bryan Dick-Ipsen. Andrew Smith, an attorney at Humphrey, Farrington &amp; McClain, represented Dick-Ipsen in an underlying action alleging Dick-Ipsen developed Parkinson\u2019s disease after being exposed to toxic chemicals\u00a0 as a dry cleaner.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Settling an arbitration dispute between a former client and a Kansas City-area law firm, an Illinois appellate court concluded a legal-malpractice action could proceed\u00a0because the attorneys failed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1713,3305,336,143,1242,1606,191,3304,153],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-arbitration","tag-clause","tag-client","tag-court","tag-denies","tag-failure","tag-firms","tag-inform","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}