Increasingly, scam victims have asked Watson Goepel LLP’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group to help recover funds stolen from a bank account. To do so, we have often sought an exceptional remedy known as a “Norwich Order” to track down information about where the stolen funds have gone and who is behind the accounts that…

Clients Paying Third Parties Using Their Lawyer’s Trust Account Watson Goepel LLP’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group was recently successful in clarifying how funds deposited in a lawyer’s trust account on behalf of a third party are treated. In successive successful hearings, we argued that when a company pays funds into a trust on behalf…