Patent Litigators held their breath all through the summer, as the Supreme Court considered whether a patent could be enforced in the Internet process area.  Bilski v. Kapos was decided by terms end, but did not really put the issues to bed. 

Apparently, while others were holding their breath, this plaintiff/client and her attorney were…

Sanna v Polizzotto ;2010 NY Slip Op 51496(U) ;Decided on August 23, 2010 ;Supreme Court, Richmond County ;Minardo, J.  discusses several interesting aspects of legal representation, contingent fees, what is unconscionable in contingencies, and legal malpractice.
 

Plaintiffs and their family were in a dispute over property.  Attorneys were retained to represent one of…

In Brackman v Medical Liab. Mut. Ins. Co. ; 2010 NY Slip Op 51432(U); Supreme Court, Nassau County , Winslow, J. we see an unusual but doctrinaire situation in which a doctor sues his defense attorneys for settling a case in which he was sued.  The decision lays bare the method by which medical malpractice…

Bankruptcy and legal malpractice have a special relationship.  There are special rules, there are collateral estoppel dimensions to fee requests, and the mere filing of bankruptcy may end a plaintiff’s right to a cause of action.  Here, in GREENSTREET FINANCIAL, L.P., against- GREENSTREET FINANCIAL, L.P.,  UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF…

It being a Friday in the Summer, we bring you legal malpractice news from the Jersey Shore, by way of Law.Com.  Legal malpractice issues arise wherever attorneys represent clients.  Clients sometimes bear some portion of the blame when cases/transactions go sour.  Here is a description of one, from Law.Com.

Charles Toutant writes: "Warning clients…

In Garnett v. Fox Horan & Camerini LLP the unusually but by no means novel situation arises where a "liquidating trustee" sues the debtor’s pre-petition attorney for acts that may have led to the Chapter 11 bankruptcy.  Here, in a decision by Justice Jane Solomon, of Supreme Court, New York County

Boylan International, Inc. was an…

Landau P.C. v. Goldstein is the latest chapter in the Morris Eisen saga.  Once king of the Woolworth Building, Morris Eisen PC was perhaps the largest/most powerful plaintiff’s personal injury law firm in NYC.  The firm had a full floor there, comprising half a city block.  Mornings (6am) saw a gathering of trial attorneys having…

Ableco Finance LLC v. Hilson,  Ippolito and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP; Supreme Court, New York County, [Justice Kornreich ]is a case we reported on last year.  Now, Justice Kornreich has dismissed some parts of the case, and retained some other causes of action.  "1This malpractice action arises from a 2008 transaction…