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A Special Deal Too Good to Be True. And Was.

From the Texas Supreme Court

Stop us if you’ve heard this one.

A would-be foreign client who claims to be in the Netherlands contacts an American lawyer by email in 2014 to get the lawyer’s help collecting a debt and, when the client said the obligation had been settled, the lawyer agreed to wire the proceeds to a bank in Japan. A cashier’s check for more than $493,600 was sent for the debt payment with instructions to wire $398,980 to Japan. Do that, the client said, and keep a $10,000 retainer.

Osler McCarthy

Osler McCarthy is an editor-at-large for The Texas Lawbook.

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