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.

We rarely go outside of the continental US for Legal Malpractice news, but this is a hybrid. Prince Albert II of Monaco recently admitted paternity in a California case. His teenage daughter there in California cannot ascend to the throne, but is due part of the billions. I don’t remember, but isn’t her grandmother Grace…

Just trying to read through Judge Cote’s decision in Trepel v. Dippold, published in today’s NYJL reminds me of law school. Here’s what I get out of it. Trepel is suing the law firm because he thinks they helped one Diop to get paintings out of the district before Trepel could execute upon them…

Matthew Hirsche of the NYLJ writes about the interconnection of a missing $500 million dollars, Flintkote Co., Imperial Tobacco Co of Canada, and the eventual collapse of the asbestos company. Plaintiff’s attorneys are now trying to determine whether Sullivan & Cromwell helped in diverting $500 million away from potential tobacco and asbestos plaintiffs. Details…