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Today, we published entry No.502 in our legal malpractice series. Reaching that benchmark, along with the accompanying series in the NYLY Outside Counsel Column is a benchmark for the New York Attorney Malpractice Blog. Thanks for stringing along with us!

These new rules do not have a direct bearing on legal malpractice, nor do they arise from a legal malpractice case, but they do have the potential to pop up in a legal malpracitce case some months from now. The gist of new rules? Motions with a request for a TRO require specified statements by…

As we have written many times, legal malpractice claims medical malpractice as its father. Here is an article from the master practitioners in Medical Malpractice, Tom Moore and Matthey Gaier, writing about how to investigate and litigate a case where the physical condition of the doctor is relavant. The physical condition [medication, physical condition, psychological…

A little known principal in Legal Malpractice is the issue of privity when client is represented by union paid attorneys. An example would be a union member who is represented by an attorney paid for by the union in a disciplinary matter. There is a long line of cases which hold that there is no…

Defendant attorney in this legal malpractice case worked for the insurance company [oh, yes, and for the defendant estate]. It took the case, estimed a verdict of $ 300,000 – $ 600,000 and suffered a verdict of $ 78 million, later reduced to about $ 16 million. Subrogation? Privity? May the insurer sue the attorney…

This attorney went from bad to worse. He got a nice case of a defective chair with physical injury. He let the statute of limitations run. He was sued, and settled the legal malpractice case against him. Then he got cought forging a judge’s signature on a document which would have release a lien on…

Here is another legal malpractice case for Vinson & Elkins. This legal malpractice case arises from their handling of San Diego’s investigatation of “the city’s financial disclosure practices and its pension system, and to represent the city before the Securities and Exchange Commission, which was investigating the city.

Vinson & Elkins released its report in…