$2 million dollar sanction for frivolous lawsuit

I have often complained on this blog about inadequeate/lenient sanctions for misconduct. I can't complain today! The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a New Jersey state judge has ordered Paul Weiss and Lowenstein Sandler to pay almost $2 million in legal fees for filing what she considered frivolous suit. Wow! Now that's a big sanction; and by the way, that is supposed to come out of the firm's pocket - not the client's.. In the lawsuit a billionaire plaintiff argued that his father in law had made an oral promise to leave a greater share of his estate to his daughter - the plaintiff's late wife. For more on this story go to the WSJ Law Blog.