This article from the Daily Report tells us more about a new trend, legal malpractice cases arising and related to bankrupcy filings:

"A federal judge has approved a settlement—apparently totaling $4.25 million—of a lawsuit against Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker.

The suit had alleged that some of the firm’s Los Angeles lawyers helped Mobile Billboards…

In this Fourth Department case  Kumar v, American Transit Co, the Appellate Division has reversed and sent a case of legal malpractice back for trial.  It is an interesting application of equitable subrogation.  Plaintiff is an auto insurer who was involved in bad faith litigation.  Briefly, driver agrees to pay his policy…

Surcharged as an executor, this attorney has an ongoing legal malpractice case against several sets of his own attorneys.  In Alaimo v. Mongelli, we see several varieties of legal malpractice allegations.  One of them is in contract for failure to undertake an appeal, which was paid for, and one is for straight negligence.  The NYLJ…

This report from the Wall Street Journal Law Blog suggests that JP Morgan may have had to raise its buying price from $ 2 to $10 because of legal malpractice.  What was the legal malpractice?  A sentence inadvertently left in the agreement, which required JP Morgan to guarantee certain trades. 

Whether this is true or…

Clients often come to speak with a legal malpractice attorney, and concentrate on the mistakes made by their attorney.  While there can be many mistakes, not all of them lead to a successful case.  Here is an example of many mistakes in a NJ case in which, at the end, there may be no provable…

This legal malpractice case from New Jersey illustrates an interesting point.  DONALD ERICKSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JEFFREY S. LEONARD, ESQ., and HERSH, RAMSEY AND BERMAN, P.C., Defendants-Respondents. 

 Plaintiff’s attorney seems to have narrowed the issues after remand from an appeal, and narrowed them so much, that he lost a second motion for summary judgment.  From reading…

Plaintiff, a kid on in-line skates, runs into debris at a construction site.  He hires defendant attorneys to sue the construction defendants and the land owner for debris on a public sidewalk.  First he loses against one defendant, and then, by res judicata against the other,  Why did he lose? 

If, on the one hand…

This case Wolski v. Wandel is a well written, well thought out discussion of summary judgment motions in legal malpractice.  Although the primary subject is the use of expert testimony in opposing a motion for summary judgment, this decision sets forth many aspects of Nebraska Legal Malpractice law.