We reported on this case last week; it’s an example of big law legal malpractice.  The general view of legal malpractice limits its reach to small cases involving personal injury and blown statutes of limitation.  However, cases such as this one are huge.

From Law.Com and the Blog of Legal Times: "A team of…

The principal that attorneys may not be held in legal malpractice over questions of judgment, strategies at trial and the like is given especial prominence in this case.  Client is found liable for $ 7 Million in patent infringement and $20 million in punitives, for "especially reprehensible " behavior.  On appeal, attorneys succeed in reducing…

It’s the rare case in which attorney and judge are both defendants, and the rarer case still in which allegations of stalking, habeas corpus, child custody, contempt are joined with legal malpractice.  What makes this case even more unique is that it is set in Federal District Court.  This is a legal malpractice trifecta. Legal…

Legal Malpractice actions often start with the termination of the target attorney, and even more of them have the common aspect of take-overs by successor attorneys.  What happens to the file, how does it get transferred and who pays for the transfer?

This weeks decision in Moore v. Ackerman, Supreme Court, Kings County is…

We’ve written in the past on the collateral estoppel trap in legal malpractice.  While fee arbitrations in State Court proceedings probably have the greatest absolute number of applications, bankruptcy court fee awards may well cover a greater dollar figure.  Here, in In re D. A. ELIA CONSTRUCTION CORP., Debtor.  07-CV-754,08-CV-103  UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE…

Burt Pugach and Linda Riss are a staple of the blogosphere and the Page Six world.  He was a lawyer who was convicted in 1959 for blinding Linda Riss by use of lye, went to jail ,came out of jail to marry her ,and then was disbarred.  He was determined to have practiced law through…

Our meme on this blog is that Legal Malpractice litigation is ubiquitous and omnipresent.  All right, what exactly does that mean?  It’s not just blown statutes in personal injury, and it’s not just unanswered questions in matrimonial suits, and it’s not even just bankruptcy trustees and ponzi schemes.  It’s the basis commercial transactional world too. …

In the law, "attorney’s fees are awarded…" carry awesome power.  Traditionally, the American rule is that each side bears its own attorney fees unless there is an agreement or a statute which grants attorney fees to the prevailing party.  Attorney fees are awarded in L & T litigation, based upon the usual rental lease; in discrimination cases by…