It is usually defendant’s strategy to blame the client, at least to some extent.  Here in this case, even the court joined in.  Plaintiff was in an auto accident, hired an attorney who filed the complaint, and then gave up on discovery responses. Case dismissed, and incidently, the attorney was suspended, for an unrelated…

Here is a case in which a husband’s creditors executed upon his wife’s jewlery.  Attorney is hired and the case ends with her having to give up 1/2 of the booty. Husband then sues the attorney.  Guess?  He hired the attorney for his wife, as a nominal defendant, since it was his creditors going after…

Here is a case from the Bronx in which a matrimonial client unsuccessfully sues her attorney.  Case is dismissed on the statute of limitations.  This was a pro-se plaintiff  v. pro-se defendant case.

"From June 12, 2000 to September 7, 2000, Plaintiff KINBERG retained Defendant GARR to represent her in her matrimonial Action, (which had…

Sidewalk trip and fall cases have special problems associated with them.  As municipalities grew tired of being sued, they enacted strict notice rules, which, along with the General Municipal Law filing procedures, made for a maze.

Here is an example [from Newsbriefs of the NYLJ] of a case in which the town required plaintffs to file their…

When a person who has a personal injury case files bankruptcy, they, in essence, give up that asset to the Trustee in Bankruptcy.  If the recovery is greater than the creditor’s claims, then the plaintiff may get some money.  If not, then the entire proceeds go to the creditors.

Going along with this, the trustee…

Here is a story from Texas about a legal malpractice [or is it?] case in which the insurer asks the court to determine that it owes no defense.  The reason is not the usual "no notice’ or "fraud in the application."  In this particular instance, the insurance company believes that the behavior complained of is…

Arising in the nature of inadvertant attorney client privilege, the question of meta data was recently discussed by Hinshaw:

"The D.C. Bar Association Legal Ethics Committee concluded that when a lawyer has actual knowledge that an adversary has inadvertently provided metadata in an electronic document, the lawyer should not review the metadata without contacting…

Here is an interesting tidbit on fake lawyers, and the problems created by them. 

"The Problem of Barring Phony Lawyers from Practice

With so many bona fide lawyers struggling to obtain a job or attract clients, it’s hard to believe that some people not only manage to impersonate real lawyers, but find real business and…