Here is a short report on legal malpractice verdicts in Maryland, Virginia and DC. They were:
"Metro Verdicts Monthly recently provided data on legal malpractice settlements and verdicts in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. The median legal malpractice settlement/verdict in Washington D.C. was a whopping $262,500.00. In Virginia and Maryland, the median legal malpractice settlement/verdict…
NY Lawyer reports that a legal malpractice case against Drinker Biddel, dismissed on summary judgment, has been reversed and remanded for trial. In a double whammy, DB’s cause of action for legal fees has also been reversed.
"A New Jersey appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a claim that 630-lawyer Drinker Biddle committed malpractice that forced…
The $15 Million case by Mercantile Capital Partners Fund against Morrison Cohen has survived a motion to dismiss. The decision by Justice Ling-Cohan determines that the complaint is sufficient for now. "The gravamen of this legal malpractice claim is that defendant’s alleged failure to perfect plaintiff’s security interest and subsequent failure of the credit…
In New York for the most part, venue is found in the county where plaintiff or defendant resides or has its principal place of business. Here is an interesting case from Missouri, in which plaintiff successfully started and kept the case in the county [or district] where the wrong took place.
"State ex rel. …
Legal malpractice carriers are always looking for a way out. Coverage exclusions, notice provisions, each week out a very significant number of potential claims. Notice provisions are found both in the initial [usually yearly] applications, as well as the obligation to inform the carrier as soon as a claim is even a potential.
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NY Lawyer, via Legal Inteligencer reports on this big number legal fee disgorgement case in Philadelphia.
"A Philadelphia judge has ruled that a Montgomery County law firm should pay $5.2 million, including $1 million in punitive damages, for attorney fees the judge said the firm unlawfully accumulated during its collection of delinquent municipal and…
This story fromDaily Business Review about cruise line legal malpractice is a twist on the usual. Generally the story is about a lost plaintiff’s case based on jurisdiction, or the lack thereof. Here the story is considerably more inflammatory, Plaintiff’s lawyer Jay Wingate has been in the news lately, with tales of chasing cases…
New York Lawyer reports that Aretha Franklyn, the Queen of Soul is in danger of losing her mansion over a missed tax payment, which was supposed to be handled by her attorney. Here is the story from the AP:
"Aretha Franklin could lose her home to tax collectors. The singer says an attorney’s mistake caused…
Reported today in the NYLJ, the case of Sapir v. Resnick, Supreme Court, Nassau County , Decided February 26, 2008 illustrates an important point. The attorney’s mistakes are but the starting point in any legal malpractice case. Vitality of the underlying case is all important too.
Here, "Justice Palmieri held that malpractice had occurred "when…
Blackwater’s Attorney Wiley Rein, is involved in litigation over the deaths of Blackwater employees in Iraq. Tied up in this case are the questions of the military, contractors to the military, and the rules which apply to them. Do the rules changes in a war zone, do active military operations in the immediate area change the…
