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…
In today’s New York Law Journal, Kenneth Block and Jeffrey Steiner report on the liability of attorneys, to non-clients, based upon false assurrances. They write:
“As a result of recent litigation in New York1 and elsewhere2 involving claims against attorneys and accountants, we thought it would be helpful to revisit fundamental principles of third…
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…
“A Kansas-based company is suing Madison law firm Shaffer and Shaffer, claiming the firm is guilty of legal malpractice.
Bennett and Daughter Security Associates filed the lawsuit July 6 in Kanawha Circuit Court against the firm and attorney Susan Cannon-Ryan.” Details.
Gardner Carton & Douglas and one of its former attorneys “have been sued for legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary responsibility in connection with the 2004 sale of the Scholl College building on the city’s Gold Coast.”
“The North Chicago-based medical school alleges that Mr. Loren conspired with Stuart Levine, who then headed the school’s…
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…
We’re featured today in the New York Law Journal writing about the Collateral Estoppel Trap in Legal Malpractice. Details.
Nat Hentoff suggests a list of chracters for President Bush to sue in legal malpractice. Here is his political op-ed page.
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.…
Office of Court Administration recently instituted a rule requiring attorneys to notify judges when 60 days had passed without a decision on motions. We bloged about this on the day of institution. Now OCA has recinded the rule. Why? It seems too many litigants were using the letter as a way of re-making their arguments.…
