Patent law is one of the few permitted “specialities”, and well beyond the ken of most practicing attorneys. Here is an interesting article on just how uncertain patent litigation is, and how it is related to legal malpractice.

Who would have thought that the US Supreme Court would have come up in a search of former playboy bunnies/topless dancers. Now, legal malpractice too comes up in the search. The Hoops and Other blog makes this argument: but for legal malpractice in bringing an action against Smith in Bankruptcy court, there would have been…

The NYLJ and Law Com are both running a story on NJ permission to form law office subsidiaries. The lure is spinning off a new smaller law firm to handle a niche area, and then the ability to get rid of it later. At the very bottom is the unanswered question: will the subsidiarie’s malpractice…

Read about the big changes sought in contingency fee medical malpractice and wrongful death cases, which was voted out of committee and goes to the Assembly in New York State. Details

Even stripped of its defenses [see the earlier report] Winston & Strawn gains dismissal of the suit. The Appellate Division reversed Supreme Court, and dismissed. The Appellate Division found the allegations “conclusory” and that self-ineterest or conflict of interest had not been shown. Here, the Town was a “sophisticated client.”

We reported on this yesterday, but here is a further blog blurb from the NYLJ on this legal malpractice case.
Continue Reading Copmputer Associates Legal Malpractice Case

Here is an example of the lawyer and successor lawyer question in Richardson v. Lindenbaum & Young, from todays NYLJ.
Continue Reading Lawyers and Successor Lawyers in Legal Malpractice

Here is a short blog blip from Chicago [Subscription required]. I guess that the defendant attorney argues that he is not required to engage in legal fictions in order to avoid legal malpractice. Details.