Here is a New York Law Journal report of a legal malpractice case involving the White House, sitting judges, and other big players.

"Blackwater Security filed a $30 million malpractice suit against Washington, D.C., law firm Wiley Rein on Wednesday, alleging the firm made costly missteps in a wrongful death case brought on behalf of four former Blackwater employees who were killed in Iraq in 2004. The complaint, filed in D.C. Superior Court, claims Wiley Rein lawyers filed sloppy pleadings that ultimately barred Blackwater from shifting the case from a state court in North Carolina to federal district court, where the security firm could have mounted a stronger defense. After losing its bid to have the case transferred in October 2005, Blackwater discarded its Wiley Rein team, which included: Fred Fielding, now White House counsel; Barbara Van Gelder, now an attorney with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; Scott McCaleb, who is a partner with Wiley Rein; and Margaret Ryan, now a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.