Attorney Referrals are a significant part of the attorney compensation field, and some attorneys derive considerable fees from their practice of taking in a large catchment population, and then referring the cases out to attorneys in specialized fields.  What is their potential liability?

Bloom v Hensel ;2009 NY Slip Op 00884 ;Decided on February…

The Fourth Department handed down four legal malpractice decisions this week, which is surely a record. Three were decisions without reasoning.  The fourth, KEITH LONG, , v CELLINO & BARNES, P.C., THE BARNES FIRM, P.C., STEPHEN E. BARNES, ESQ., RICHARD J. BARNES, ESQ., ROSS M. CELLINO, JR., ESQ., 1620 CA 07-01737;SUPREME COURT OF…

How much money can be made in the business of incarcarating juviniles?  Apparently, quite a bil.  This Pennsylvania judge was suspended upon "accusations that two now-suspended Pennsylvania judges accepted $2.6 million in kickbacks in exchange for incarcerating juveniles at specific detention facilities "  That’s bad.  Now, from the ABA Journal,  the spillover:

"Accusations that two…

Here is the story of a three-way deal in a legal malpractice / overpayment of fees / municipal negligence case which we reported at the onset.  In Lodi, California [I must admit that the CCR song quickly comes to mind] target attorney had represented the city in litigation, especially an underground pollution case, and claimed…

If one were to peruse the legal press, headlines seem limited to merger, layoffs and legal fee disputes.  There is a definite tie-in to legal malpractice litigation.  Lesson one by legal malpractice insurers to attorneys is that legal fee cases engender legal malpractice defenses.

Here, from Legal Profession Blog is yet another example:  attorney who…

For some reason, it seems legal malpractice cases are subject to an inordinately high percentage of motions to dismiss, more so than other categories of cases.  Here in SHAHRAM DAVID LAVIAN,  -v.- IRA DANIEL TOKAYER, ESQ., 08 Civ. 938 (PAC) (GWG);
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK;2009 U.S. Dist.

The principal of "continued representation" in Legal Malpractice is that the statute of limitations does not start to run upon the making of a mistake,  while the attorney continues to represent the client.  "The statue of limitations sounding in legal malpractice is tolled until the completion of the attorney’s ongoing representation concerning the matter out of…

The poor deserve an adequate criminal defense as much as anyone else.  While everyone gets an attorney when arrested, even if they cannot afford one, publicly funded legal Aid or 18b attorneys don’t always get sufficient funding to handle large caseloads/  Who suffers? 

Here is a case from Seattle in which an innocent man sat…