In today’s NYLJ  article by Drew Combs we see the interim outcome we see the basic outline of the attorney-client relationship gone bad.

"A California venture capitalist who has admitted to bribing New York state pension officials has sued Gibson Dunn & Crutcher over $1.3 million in fees the firm seeks for representing him during…

This story about a Kentucky case comes from the Legal Profession Blog. 

"A high school English teacher was sitting in her living room when a small plane hit the roof of the second story of her home. She suffered no direct physical injury but went into a state of shock, which led to health…

As further proof of the wide-ranging nature of legal malpractice litigation, we see in D’Elia v. D’Amico & Associates  , 2010 NY Slip Op 30545, Supreme Court, Nassau County, J. McCarty a plaintiff who has claims against the target attorneys for estate matters for two relatives as well as in the purchase of a house.

One important…

We’re not sure how to value this legal malpractice law suit reported in Law.Com in a story by Julia Kay.    It’s not simply a $ 168 Million claim, it’s a class action case too.

"A Sarasota, Fla., judge dismissed some counts but let stand malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty charges in a lawsuit filed…

Legal Malpractice cases arise from any number of interesting underlaying matters.  In Shawandya L. Simpson v. Bernard M. Alter and Diana A. Johnson, the legal malpractice case alleges breach of fiduciary duty, conflict of interest, legal malpractice and wrongful disclosure of information.

Here, Simpson was running for judicial office in Brooklyn as was Diana…

One rule that we think distinguishes legal malpractice from all other areas of the law (with the possible exception of medical malpractice) is the question of judgment and how it might insulate the practitioner from claims of negligence.  Here, in MARK A. MCCORD, -v.- MICHAEL G. O’NEILL, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE…

The Appellate Decision in Steven Von Duerring,  v. Hession & Bekoff,  is so sparse that one has absolutely no idea what the case is about.  When we turn to the Supreme Court case from which the appeal emanates we see that it is a legal malpractice arising out of a claim that…

If thing go wrong, sue the attorney!  It’s a familiar meme, yet there are more and more arbitration clauses found in retainer agreements, especially media representations and patent law.  On the one hand, in NYS there are the mandatory fee dispute arbitrations, but that is now what we are thinking about.  As an example: PROTOSTORM, …