In a short article from an insurance examier, the message is: legal malpractice law suit numbers are more or less steady; awards are getting larger, and there is a shift from almost all client-attorney cases to 15% non-clients suing, such as the Vinson Elkins $40 billion case. Details.

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