Unlikely to make the NY papers, this was a lead article in The Oklahoman. The allegations apparently were that wife’s marital attorney signed some docmuments either “for” her, or without her knowledge, the act was discovered, and the divorce put on hold for a period of time. Result: legal malpractice case. Details.…

This case, from the Court of Appeals, appears to affect only matters in the Court of Claims. However, the question of the rate of interest to be applied to post-verdict and post-judgment awards implicates the entire spectrum of legal practice. Query: will there be a new requirement to bring in an economist to prove…

Pecan cracking is big business, and this patent legal malpractice, which just recently ended in a $5.8 million verdict demonstrates the reach of legal advice and its potential liability. In Columbia, SC Frank Robertson was awarded $5.5 Million for bad legal advice, which he received from Nexsen, Pruet, Adams, Kleemeier. For the details.

Rock, paper, scissors – read Cassandra Crotty’s blog on this new ADR which is sweeping the courts. Details

“A $178 million settlement in a class action against accounting firm KPMG and law firm Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, for allegedly selling fraudulent tax shelter strategies, won final approval Friday.” Details

Legal malpractice is the decendent of medical malpractice. This lineage is demonstrated in continued representation, in analysis of “standards” of care, and in many other fashions.

A very interesting article appears today in the NYLJ by Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier discusses Hinlicky v. Dreyfus _NY3d_, reported in the NYLJ on 5/3/06.

This Court…

California has very different rules from New York on statute of limitations questions. Here is a case from California where plaintiff retained defendant attorney to represent her in a discrimination case. He had two paths to take, and after exhausting one, simply ended the work. Several years later, after the statute had run on legal…

Vinson & Elkins settled one part of the Enron Legal Malpractice case, this one in bankruptcy court for $30 million. In addition it will lose $3.9 million in fees. Still to come: the investor’s lawsuit which could come to billions Details.