{"id":5775,"date":"2025-05-13T17:17:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T17:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/plaintiff-attorneys-sanctioned-for-entangling-firm-partners-in-rico-suit-judge-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T17:17:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T17:17:22","slug":"plaintiff-attorneys-sanctioned-for-entangling-firm-partners-in-rico-suit-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/plaintiff-attorneys-sanctioned-for-entangling-firm-partners-in-rico-suit-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaintiff Attorneys Sanctioned for Entangling Firm Partners in RICO Suit, Judge Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>A federal judge not only shut down efforts to hold dozens of law firm partners liable for a managing partner&#8217;s alleged multimillion-dollar fraud scheme but also determined the plaintiffs firms should face sanctions for casting such a wide net.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>The plaintiffs, who were all clients of Messner Reeves, argued that all of the firm&#8217;s attorneys with the title of &#8220;partner&#8221; had created an unregistered general partnership that could be held vicariously liable for the conduct of Torben Welch, managing partner of the firm&#8217;s Salt Lake City office, who they alleged misled them into a more than $10 million scheme. In total, the plaintiffs raised <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.alm.com\/22\/cd\/83f0cca04775b899367d983afe90\/gov-uscourts-utd-149636-208-0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claims<\/a> against more than 75 current and former partners, 10 equity partners and one associate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge not only shut down efforts to hold dozens of law firm partners liable for a managing partner&#8217;s alleged multimillion-dollar fraud scheme but also determined the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[93,5917,184,423,766,814,2513,351,1525,339],"class_list":["post-5775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-attorneys","tag-entangling","tag-firm","tag-judge","tag-partners","tag-plaintiff","tag-rico","tag-rules","tag-sanctioned","tag-suit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775","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=5775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}