Failure to diagnose breast cancer…it’s a horrible thing.  When we think of a family member who could have been saved, who dies because of medical negligence, where a simple mammogram or simply reading it correctly could have made a difference…

Here, after a death, the medical malpractice case was bungled, and a legal malpractice case…

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Experts are generally, but not always necessary in legal malpractice cases.  The test is whether a fact-finder can rely upon its own knowledge.  Here is an interesting case, Frances Northrop, respondent, v Eric Ole Thorsen, appellant. (Index No. 5684/04) ,2007-00973 ,
SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, SECOND DEPARTMENT ,
2007 NY Slip…

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SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, THIRD DEPARTMENT

2008 NY Slip Op 27
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This is a case in which the question becomes whether an individual…

Attorneys and clients enter into contingent fee retainer agreements, which do not directly address the question of an appeal.  Is the legal fee for an appeal the responsibility of the client or the attorney in this situation?  Here is a case from Madison/St.Clair which discusses this question:

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It’s winter, and our thoughts turn to the Caribbean.  Here, a Philadelphia law firm, 1400 lawyers strong, gave commercial advice pertaining to the Cuban embargo, and are now defendants in a legal malpractice case.  Here is the story from Bloomberg, via the Caribbean news agency.

"NEW YORK, USA (Bloomberg): Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the largest…

The question of pre-judgment interest in legal malpractice has not been widely understood .  Generally, it was thought that an award of pre-judgment interest was determined on the same basis as in the underlying case.  Contract damages, yes.  Pain and suffereing, no.

However, this case indicates that the real inquiry is whether there should be pre-judgment…

This is a seminal, important case which will, we predict, be widely cited and discussed in Legal Malpractice.   Barnett v. Schwartz, 2007 NY Slip Op. 09712, 2d Dept, December 11, 2007 is important for several reasons. We’ll discuss the first here

“But for” causation is not as difficult as had previously been believed.

Does the…