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…

Here is a Front page “In Brief” story from the New York Law Journal: Attorney is suspended after he compounded what appears to be a rather common error. Client wanted to sue the State Board of Higher Education, probably for a slip and fall case on a campus. Attorney was required to file a…

Here is an article from Bloomberg on line giving a non-attorney’s view of the Enron-Vinson & Elkins mess. Details.

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.…