This story is becoming news.  In a legal malpractice litigation,  involving the Town of Manalapan, NJ suing over a land deal by a former public official, a blogger is now being pursued for information coming onto the blog site.  Like the Flea case [read Eric Turkowitz’s series of articles in   this new case has…

We’re republishing a blog blurb that unfortunately did not have a link to the original case.  From what we can piece together, here is what happened.  Plaintiff undergoes back surgery and emerges blind in one eye and damaged in the other.  Plaintiff hires med mal attorney who sues on the theory of drug incompatibility.  Attorney…

In NY a convicted criminal defendant may not successfully sue his criminal defense attorney…unless he is exonerated.  That, or a reversal of the conviction [the ability to demonstrate "innocence"] is necessary.  In Wisconsin, the rule is in flux.  Here is a case which discusses, without deciding, when the statute starts to run: on the date…

When you start out reading this story, it cleaves to the age old complaint:  Lawyers are less polite, and more business oriented than in the past.  It’s no longer a profession, its a business.  The shocker comes at the end of this particular story:  biglaw litigating lawyer calls Federal Judge anti-catholic !

"Manhattan federal…

In New York there is no recognizable discovery rule for the statute of limitations.  For the most part, the statute starts to run on the day of the mistake, although it may be tolled for continuous representation, or fraud [which does not consist of merely hiding the malpractice], but in Delaware there is a specific…

Mississippi seems like the wild west of litigation.  When personal injury attorneys here speak of  the Bronx with reverence, it pales in comparison.  Here is a story of big tobacco, big tobacco litigation, big law and big bribes.  This might even be a reason for senatorial resignation!

"An attorney who helped negotiate a multibillion-dollar settlement…

Here is a story from Kentucky.  What caught our interest was the "case so good he couldn’t lose it"

"He has been called the lawyer "sued on both ends" — losing lawsuits filed against him by his client and by the Louisville surgeon his client unsuccessfully sued.

As the Kentucky Trial Court Review put it, Tennessee attorney…

This attorney fee matter involves a huge real estate famiy fortune.  It recalls the Goldman real estate family divorce.  There the husband proudly declared that he owed his wife only $ 386 milion dollars in equitable distribution, not $ 786 million.  

 In Lawrence v. Miller the attorneys worked on this estate matter for an hourly rate which…