One of the more interesting aspects of legal malpractice litigation is the ferocity with which defendant attorneys will employ in their defense…especially when contrasted with the particulars of plaintiff’s complaint…usually that the attorneys were way below lackluster when they were prosecuting the underlying case.
Here is an example from the MassTortDefense blog.
"A legal malpractice case…
It’s all over the law news today, and here is NY Lawyer’s report on the Kirkland Ellis patent legal malpractice case in Illinois:
"In an Illinois state court filing last week, Kirkland & Ellis is being sued for legal malpractice by a former client that blames the law firm for the loss of a patent case…
The outcome in this case is not unique; many legal malpractice cases are dismissed prior to trial, often on the basis that there is no "proximate cause" or "there is documentary evidence that plaintiff cannot prove the underlying case." Terrance Wray, appellant, v Mallilo & Grossman, etc., respondent.SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, SECOND…
One of the more fascinating aspects of legal malpractice is the large catchment area. That jargon, from psychology simply means that almost everyone uses attorneys, whether the largest CEO, or a hip hop magi zine employee who alleges sexual harassment.
Here, two employees of The Source were fired, and they sued. Their attorneys Thompson Wigdor &…
New York Lawyer reports that a legal malpractice case in Philadelphia may continue as is a case in New Jersey.
"Just a few weeks after a malpractice claim against Nixon Peabody was allowed to go forward in New Jersey, a Philadelphia judge has allowed to continue a separate, but similar, malpractice action against the firm…
In Legal Malpractice cases, the subtext is consistently one of betrayal, or at best a shortcoming. Potential clients report that their attorney misled them, or abandoned them, or simply did not do the work. These claims are often true, to a shocking and heartrending degree.
Here, in this story, not only is there the…
As an added reason why one should never, never, never dip toes in another state’s legal proceedings, see this story on the difference between statute of limitations in an oral versus written contract in legal malpractice.
"A legal malpractice claim was time-barred because it was subject to a shorter statute of limitations for actions based…
Who may sue the lawyer? Is it the corporation / LLC / etc. or the individual? Here, in this Schulte Roth case [McCagg v. Schulte Roth] from Supreme Court, New York County, partners who are suing each other find that neither may individually sue the attorneys involved for legal malpractice.
The back story is…
Campbell Holder, an attorney in Manhattan has the dubious honor of being a jailed legal malpractice defendant. A significant judgment was just entered against him in Federal District Court. The New York Law Journal reports:
"An imprisoned former attorney was ordered to pay $250,000 in damages to a client whose case against the Metro-North…
Continuing a trend for bankruptcy/referee/trustee/ unusual settings for legal malpractice litigation, here is an article from NY Lawyer about the settlement of a large legal malpractice "disentanglement" case:
"Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has paid $9.5 million to Brocade Communications Systems to release itself — as well its chairman and former Brocade board member, Larry…
