We love rock and roll, and realise it did not end with Steely Dan. Here is a Milwaukee group, well known [?] there, who eventually sued its manager, and now successfully sued its attorney. The story:
"The long nightmare that has plagued the BoDeans is over. For nearly five years, the Milwaukee rock group…
One would initially think that a communication between client and attorney on an issue arising from the attorney’s representation of the client would be privileged. In this case, recently decided by Justice Charles E. Ramos of Supreme Court, New York County, the privilege was waived.
"On August 10, 2005, BI’s counsel, Marvin Wexler of…
There’s not a lot to comment on in this story. Simply count up the legal malpractice issues: conflict of interest, attorneys switching sides, surreptitious spying, computer hacking on attorney-client e-mails…
"By the time it was finally hauled into court last year, it had all the ingredients of a cheap detective novel: the millionaire husband…
It’s perplexing to get a motion to dismiss, founded on the argument that while there may have been negligence, there is no proximate damage. It’s perplexing, because, while a truism, it rankles. When an attorney has made a mistake, his defense of "no harm- no foul" disturbs. Here is Day on Torts with a Michigan…
Here is a simple, short article that covers a wide set of damaged individuals. Hurt here are: plaintiff, defendant and witness.
"A Fayetteville woman was awarded more than $360,000 in both actual and punitive damages in a civil malpractice suit she filed against a local attorney.
A Fayette County State Court jury handed down the…
Here is a worthy article on Judicary Law section 487 by Norman B. Arnoff and Sue C. Jacobs in the October 24, 2007 New York Law Journal. It should be read by attorneys, as this statute applies to them alone.
"Lawyers are officers of the court, as such, they must be ethically responsible not only…
This is a sordid story of a professor who was barred from teaching at a university. He was accused of making rather coarse sexual comments to students, many of them. While litigating over his potential dismissal, a letter was sent to one witness with a photocopy of the definition of perjury and a suggestion of…
Borrowing a sister state’s statute of limitations is the province of "choice of law", which is a rather esoteric law school subject. For our purposes, which state’s law should be applied depends on where the action is brought, where the wrong took place, where the parties were subject to service of process and jurisdiction.
Here…
Pro-Bono work at Big Law or at Big Companies in house law departments has radically increased over the past 10 years. One reason is the availability of legal malpractice insurance. Here is an interesting article on the current status:
"Q: How successful has the challenge been?
A: Anecdotally, we know that more companies are getting…
Service of process cases turn on the facts, and generally do not provide either generalized rules or sweeping policy arguments, Here is a case in which the attorney’s door was locked, there was no answering machine and nothing personalized about the place except a shingle. Not exactly a downtown NYC type of office.
"According to…
