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Attorney Salhi was solicitor for a NJ board of education, and was sitting in on a board meeting when a board employee appeared to complain about affirmative action programs, and their shortcomings. The attorney was designated as “secretary pro-tem” and wrote up the minutes. After this and many intervening events [recounted in the decision], he…

It is the rule in NY that a plaintiff may sue its attorney for failure to appeal or perfect an appeal. The burden of proof is no different than for any other case: did the attorney deviate from good practice, was that deviation the proximate cause of damage, and was plaintiff damaged?

The difference is…

We’ve reported on this case in months past. Here is the latest from the NYLJ.“Attorneys in the malpractice lawsuit against Barry C. Scheck and his firm, Cochran, Neufeld & Scheck, have agreed to mediation before Eastern District Magistrate Judge Steven M. Gold. The state Court of Appeals recently ruled that Mr. Long, who was…

The Lakin firm has received a great deal of publicity in the legal malpractice world. We have several articles over the past year, all of which may be accessed by suing the “search” box. Here a young woman, injured by a falling limb, was told that she could receive “millions” only to be dropped. She…

Precursers to legal malpractice may often be found in the underlying case which has had sanctions granted. Here is one potential example of the act-sanctions-legal malpractice script. Here, the attorneys are sanctioned, based upon what another litigant calls a most extreme malice. When this is the story, client often turns on attorney. Details.…