CELEBRITY CRUISES INC., and FANTASIA CRUISING INC., Plaintiffs, – against – ESSEF CORP., PAC-FAB, INC., and STRUCTURAL EUROPE N.V. (f/n/a SFC), Defendants.
96 Civ. 3135 (JCF)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 568
January 4, 2008, Decided
This is a cruise line injury action. “After passengers…
Unconfirmed by other media, here is a report of a $ 30 million award against California law firm Fish & Richardson in favor of Kairos Scientific, Inc. it appears that this 2003 verdict was recently upheld on Appeal. Further information to come.
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Winning solution: Andrew Bluestone, a sole practitioner in New York City, concentrates in legal malpractice litigation. One of his biggest challenges is managing thousands of documents for each case. To deal with this, he scans every piece…
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Law Firm Wins Judgment In Legal Malpractice Action Over Sauer Verdict
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal judge has found that a law firm representing a defendant in the record-setting Advocat Inc. v. Sauer verdict is not liable in a legal malpractice action seeking $10 million in damages…
“But for” is probably the hardest part of a legal malpractice case. Plaintiff must prove that except for the mistake of the attorney, it would have won the case. This requirement often comes up against a fact based argument that on the last day of representation by the now defendant attorney, the case was still…
Anthony Lin in the New York Law Journal reports that Supreme Court, New York has dismissed a legal malpractice suit based upon the Sophisticated Plaintiff doctrine. Where the Plaintiff is as well versed in some speciality as is the attorney, then the attorney will not be held to deviate from good practice when making decisions based upon that knowledge.
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Anthony Lin, who frequently reports on Legal Malpractice cases in New York, writes today in The New York Law Journal about a legal malpractice case arising from divorce which was dismissed. It appears that the legal malpractice was coupled with a divorce attorney fee case. The divorce firm, Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo, PC…
Here’s a legal malpractice case from Indiana concerning valuation of a marital estate. Wife sued for legal malpractice after the divorce alleging that the attorneys had failed to determine her husband’s true financial holdings. Details from Valuation Issues in Indiana Blog.
Physician’s Personal Goodwill Not A Marital Asset
Gilman v. Hohman, 725 N.E.2d 425 (Ind.Ct.App.…
For the most part, legal malpractice cases revolve around money damages. Plaintiff’s are usually satisfied with a financial settlement. This case is apparently different. Here, plaintiff goes for the throat.
“Stringing him to an Oak tree might be too good for him. He has done a severe injustice to the citizens of Lodi and should…
