This is an Appellate Division 1st Department case, in accountant malpractice, not legal, but the lesson is similar. No continuous representation, as each tax year was different, staute of limitations lost on the malpractice, but fraud causes of action still permitted.
Mitschele, plaintiff-appellant v. Schultz, defendants-respondents
APPELLATE DIVISION
FIRST DEPARTMENT
"However, the fraud cause of…
Hinshaw and Culbertson reports this case, and answers in the affirmative: the case
Here is a law school problem: Mom, Dad and Kid are riding along and are hit from the side by another car. How many conflicts of interest can you find in this picture? None of the attorneys representing plaintiffs, defendants, counterclaimants or counterclaimant defendants found a single problem, but the court determined that there were too…
As I was reading this, a song about being lonely down in San Antonio came on the radio. The coincidence was too strong not to write about it. If you are in the field, here is CLE on legal malpractice. The announcement.
OK, so here is the story. Doctor and family is in a car crash. Doctor and family successfully sue for $10 million. However, he now sues his attorney because it all sort of got frittered away. There was the limit on the other car’s coverage, there were the trust deposits for the kids, there was…
We have never heard of this before, but apparently its a movement. Unbundled legal services are proceeding under a Mass program where an attorney represents a client in only one appearance, or for a small, singular issue, without taking over representation as a whole. We have reservations about what happens when the case goes sour. …
The "Anti-Divorce’" attorney has posted a site which trolls for legal malpractice cases. His pitch? He sues attorneys who settle divorce cases without the client’s permission, when the client really wants to stay married. Don’t clients have to allocute to the settlement in open court? Anyway, the site.
This Legal Profession Blog gives the latest update on mandatory legal malpractice and the status of its reqirement across the USA. The blog blurb.
Here is an example of how attorney fee cases lead to a plethora of work, trouble, litigation, and a very slim chnace of making any money. Attorney represents client in California case. Client does not pay $ 4000 in legal fees. Attorney sues client for $ 4000. Client has a NY attorney friend, who will…
Here is a story about a Georgia attorney who has long specialized in legal malpractice litigation, both plaintiff’s and defendant’s. Here is Frank Beltran’s story.
