Bingham Partner Admits Changing Key Word in Signed Dodgers Document
A partner at Bingham McCutchen testified Tuesday in the divorce trial of Dodgers owner Frank McCourt that he changed a key word in a postnup property agreement after the McCourts had signed it.
Bingham partner Larry Silverstein changed the word “exclusive” to “inclusive” to indicate that Frank McCourt was sole owner of the baseball team and not subject to California community property law, the Los Angeles Times reports. He said he made the switch to correct a “drafting error,” the Associated Press reports.
Former Bingham lawyer Reynolds Cafferata testified that Jamie McCourt told him that she owned the houses and her husband owned the businesses, and she wanted a draft agreement to chronicle that ownership, Bloomberg reports.
AP quotes a person familiar with the case as saying the McCourts plan to go into mediation as soon as Friday to resolve the ownership issue.
Prior coverage:
ABAJournal.com: Differing Versions of Postnup in McCourt Divorce Put Focus on Bingham Lawyer
