The Lawyer reports today that the U.K.-based international law firm Withers has lost its appeal of a GBP 1.6 million (US$ 2.4 million) professional negligence judgment arising from an associate's defective drafting of an LLP agreement.

The plaintiff, Wellesley Partners, had been a long-standing Withers client. The trial court found that a Withers associate's "misremembering" of his instructions ultimately resulted in losses to the plaintiff of more than GBP 1.5 million in London and in the United States, plus substantial additional internal costs.