LegalBlogWatch posted this particular comment on the question of agression, strategic decisions on mundane questions of time extensions, adjournments, motions to obtain documents. The further question: when does this devolve into legal malpractice?

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.

This press release cought my eye: a lurid novel about malpractice attorneys, a nationwide plot to kill malpractice attorneys. Who knew? Details.

Akin Gump has suffered a $1.1 million verdict in a Legal Malpractice arising out of employment contracts, the Panda power group, China and the failure to present defenses of success and other fees. Details from Texas Lawyer.

Attorney is hired to sue in malpractice. Case sours. Attorney trys to return fee in exchange for a promise not to complain. Disiplinary action follows. Will legal malpractice? Details.

As you will remember, in the Fendi case, a NJ boutique sued Weil Gotshal for legal malpractice based upon claims of conflict of interest. The conflict was said to be in representing both the boutique and Fendi or its parents too. The case went to trial with great publicity and settled just prior to summations.…

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…