About a year ago we wrote on a case in which a US Supreme Court brief and case were dismissed on technical grounds.  Its pretty bad when a mistake is advertised by the US Supreme Court on such a big stage.

Here, a loss at the US Supreme Court has led to a legal malpractice case.  "A civil case reaching the U.S. Supreme Court is generally presumed to have benefited from skillful advocacy, but in a lawsuit filed last year in Queens Supreme Court, Ideal said its former lawyers at McGuireWoods botched the case by pursuing a "unique and novel" but ultimately "inappropriate" civil RICO claim. The company further charges a scheme to bill exorbitant legal fees. In its malpractice suit, Ideal claimed that Beil ignored potential state law claims to focus on the more "intellectually novel" civil RICO claim. Paul Brancato, general manager of Ideal, which his family owns, said that focus was in keeping with Beil’s general approach to the case. "