{"id":4500,"date":"2025-03-04T11:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T11:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/am-law-200-firms-38m-malpractice-settlement-gets-court-approval\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T11:42:11","slug":"am-law-200-firms-38m-malpractice-settlement-gets-court-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/am-law-200-firms-38m-malpractice-settlement-gets-court-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Am Law 200 Firm&#8217;s $38M Malpractice Settlement Gets Court Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Eckert Seamans Cherin &amp; Mellott on Friday received final approval for a $38 million legal malpractice settlement resolving suits filed against the firm for former partner John Pauciulo\u2019s role in counseling Par Funding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>According to the final approval order signed by U.S. District Judge Rodolfo Ruiz of the Southern District of Florida, the settlement agreement will net $31.75 million for all investors defrauded by Par Funding to be distributed by the court-appointed receiver, led by Ryan K. Stumphauzer and Timothy Kolaya of Stumphauzer Kolaya Nadler &amp; Sloman and assisted by Gaetan Alfano of Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick &amp; Raspanti.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eckert Seamans Cherin &amp; Mellott on Friday received final approval for a $38 million legal malpractice settlement resolving suits filed against the firm for former partner John Pauciulo\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4868,2353,143,191,153,417,399],"class_list":["post-4500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-38m","tag-approval","tag-court","tag-firms","tag-law","tag-malpractice","tag-settlement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500","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=4500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}