Diocese, Cupich pursue suit against attorneys SPOKANE, Wash. — A lawsuit filed by the Catholic Diocese of Spokane against the lawyers who led it through a 2004 bankruptcy related to sex abuse lawsuits is set for a February trial. Bishop Blase Cupich, announced Saturday as the Chicago Archdiocese’s new leader, stopped using the legal team at Paine, Hamblen LLP after he arrived in 2010. He has since pursued a malpractice complaint that accuses the firm of failing to use a strategy that could have saved …