Here is the case of Hays v.Cave being discussed in a scholarly journal. We reported on it in May and Cassandra Crotty of Illinois Legal Malpractice Blog reported on it shortly thereafter. The gist of this case is that there can be no removal based simply on the idea that the defense to legal malpractice…

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Here, in an article by Anthony Lin are more changes to the relatively staid world of attorney fees. Retainer agreement rules are a shield and not a sword. Details. “A criminal defense lawyer’s failure to provide a client with an engagement letter or retainer agreement in violation of state code does not give the client…

Here is the famous Lynrd Skynrd royalties attorney fee case from the Court of Appeals. Now, says the NYJL in a John Caher article:

“* A client can ratify a fee agreement during a period of continuous representation;

* A client can ratify a fee agreement during a period of continuous representation even if attorney…

It’s really rare to see a new twist in litigation. Here’s one: Plaintiff’s attorneys in a securities fraud litigation are themselves sued for breach of fiduciary duty. As they say: a convoluted story. “The convoluted case — possibly a first, several lawyers said — grows out of long-running securities litigation against Tenet Healthcare, and the…

A California judge is repremanded for telling criminal defendants that the advice given them by their defense counsel was tantamount to legal malpractice. He was quoted: “Fine,” Mills said, according to a transcript. “Sometimes I can’t protect people from themselves, and sometimes I can’t protect people from an attorney that is giving them the wrong…

Here is a report from TMC Net which tells us that additional documents and legal malpractice claims will be forthcoming in the Enron peripheral legal malpractice claims against Vinson & Elkins. They have already agreed to pay $ 30 million in partial settlement. Here are the details.

Either this person is always</strong> in the wrong place, or there may be something to all of these accusations. This article about a Virginia attorneys tells us that he lost his “license as a broker on the New York Stock Exchange over allegations of forgery and misappropriation of a client’s money”, and was the…