These attorneys, all former Ohrenstein & Brown lawyers, were tenants of the WTC, The firm received a big WTC payout. Who were partners, who were not? That is the question in this case.
The common link is that these attorneys all do legal malpractice defense work.
"In a lawsuit filed last year in Manhattan…
Speaking of Sordid settlement techniques, as in the last post, here isa "sharp dealing" estate matter where an attorney was named as executor:
A New Jersey attorney and his client, who last May escaped conviction on charges they unduly pressured an elderly widow to name them as executor and beneficiary of her multimillion dollar…
Settle a big case? Do it on your own? Have a little help from inside insurance company employees? Here is a story of sordid settlement techniques:
"A Texas lawyer indicted for allegedly paying two former employees of The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. insurance settlement kickbacks has accused the employees of extorting $3 million from…
The New York Court system is Byzantine. There is Supreme Court, Civil Court, District Court, County Court, Surrogate’s Court, and so on. Where to bring an action? In Civil Court, of course, the upper limit of jurisdiction is $ 25,000. In Supreme Court, unlimited. Defendant attorneys here brought a car case in Civil court, and…
Here is a second case from the Federal Circuit, Air Measurement Technologies v. Akin Gump, which is a more simple application of federal question jurisdiction. Here the issue on appeal was whether the Federal District Court had subject matter jurisdiction over this non-diverse state court legal malpractice action. District court and the Appellate Court…
Here is a widely reported Federal Circuit Case, Immunocept v. Fulbright & Jaworsky which discusses, in great detail when a legal malpractice case, brought in state court, and removed to district court may become subject to the law of jurisdictions other than the state in which it was brought.
As an example, a legal…
No decision has been published yet, but Anthony Lin at the NYLJ reports that this legal malpractice case has been dismissed. It arises from representation of nieces and nephews of holocost victims from the 1930’s.
"A Manhattan federal judge has thrown out a legal malpractice suit arising out of competing Holocaust restitution claims.
In 2005…
Here is a rare case of a legal malprctice/arrest of an attorney for allegedly forging a court order so that his clients would not know that he had forgotten to file and serve a summons and complaint. Forgetting happens all the time, lying to clients sometimes, forgery rarely, arrests almost never. The twist? Clients not…
Client hires attorney. Attorney works on case, very hard, and does a good job? Other problems arise, such as criminal investigations of client. Client drops case. Attorney loses contingent fee. Can attorney sue client for lost fee? Here, the case says NO !.
"In a short opinion, the Court rejects the plaintiff law firm’s effort to create a new rule of client liability. The Court explains that the law firm’s legal theory would distort the complex calculus about whether to pursue litigation and “mock[] the idea of client control.” In the instant case, it’s no surprise that the client decided not to pursue civil litigation in the face of multiple criminal investigations and fraud claims, and the client acted within its rights by opting to concentrate its resources and energy on these more serious legal issues. Although the result is “admittedly harsh” to those lawyers who toil away with the expectation of a windfall contingency, that’s just the nature of the game. "
Here is the well known blogger, Day on Torts, writing about legal malpractice causation and proximity. Another way to put this [in a sports metaphor] "no harm, no foul."
"Causation in Legal Malpractice Cases
Negligence without causation is like a biscuit without country ham (or blackberry jam).
Now, I’m not so sure that juries pay…
