Insurers, defense counsel, lecturers all tell us that attorney fee suits, and threats, are a major source of discipline and legal malpractice litigation. Here is yet another example.
"When a client hesitated over paying his bill, Richard Ledingham threatened her with criminal prosecution for "theft of services" and he didn’t stop there: He also warned…
Here is an article from Anthony Lin of the NYLJ which tells of Chicago Ins. Co’s successful move to drop a legal malpractice insurance policy for an attorney who was recently sentenced to jail for fraud.
"A federal judge in Manhattan has permitted a professional liability insurer to rescind coverage for a lawyer recently sentenced…
Meat Loaf argues that "2 out of 3 ain’t bad" but it does not work in Legal Malpractice. Proving that defendant was your attorney, and that defendant breached a duty of care is insufficient.. You must prove proximate cause as well. There is little so heartbreaking as a trial verdict in which the first and second…
Moving boldly where no legal malpractice warning has been heard before, this blog blurb argues that failure to have adequate e-discovery professionals may constitute legal malpractice.
"The ability to spot the cases when meta data may be recovered is an important skill for any practitioner. The more important skill, however, is the ability to know…
The Texas Supreme Court has applied several arcane, and not easliy explanable rules to attorney fees. In this particular case arising from bull semen sales, the applied rules are more fully expanded upon and fleshed out in this Law Com article.
"Barker, the high court also for the first time applied to attorney fees the…
Day on Torts, a well read blog, reports this case. Plaintiff now sues his own attorney for failure to warn him that in this $ 20,000 law suit he might be liable to the opposing attorney for very big [$600,000] attorney fees. The Day blog blurb.
In a non-legal malpractice case, Federal Judge Sidney H. Stein made rulings which inform the substantive basis for legal malpractice cases. "But Southern District Judge Sidney H. Stein said in a Dec. 8 decision that a violation of the disciplinary rule proscribing noncompetes could not itself be the basis of a suit for damages.
The…
A New York attorney was permitted to testify about the settlement value of plaintiff’s case, had it continued in New York. The attorney, Kenneth Labarca, was allowed to testify that the case would have been among the 90% of cases which settle in NY, and that the value would have been between $95,000 and $…
Just to show you that the case is not over ’till [fill in a cliche here], this doctor, who already won a $ 8 Million verdict came back to grab another $ 180,000 from his attorney. The attorney, who was successful in the underlying personal injury action, split ways with the doctor too soon. Now,…
Here is a re-print in which the author lists judicial hell holes for litigants. Interesting to this blog is the confluence between the Madison County, Illinois description and the many articles from the Madison Reporter we have reported in Legal Malpractice. Is there a relationship? Keep tuned. The Hell Hole Blog.
