In Legal Malpractice litigation, defendants have the benefit of the principal of the reasonable judgment rule, This more or less absolute rule has been changed in KY. As reported by Cassandra Crotty in the Illinois Legal Malpractice Blog, we see this new case. Details.

Sure, its buried in this article about a very serious topic: execution by lethal injection. The question is whether the current use of lethal injection is cruel and inhumne? Is any method of execution open to challenge? But the article reports that the Supreme Court crowd broke up when Justice Scalia asked whether the failure…

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP brings this discussion of a NJ legal malpractice case. Here, defendant attorney hid the dismissal of plaintiff’s case from them for 9 years. They are due not only a positive statute of limitations decision, but a “spoliation” of evidence outcome. Details below
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Law Com reports that “A New Jersey biotechnology company is accusing a leading product-liability and toxic-tort lawyer, James Tyrrell Jr., of giving fraudulent and negligent advice that cost the client more than $10 million.

In the late 1990s, Tyrrell and his firm, Latham & Watkins in Newark, convinced Artegraft Inc. of North Brunswick to pursue…

While the main press covers the guilty pleas of Sanjay Kumar and Stephen Richards, there is a legal malpractice angle to the story. Former workers there, forced out after an internal investigation arising after the Kumar incident are continuing a legal malpractice action against their Computer Associates appointed attorneys. Thomas Liotti, a local attorney who…

In this Nassau County legal malpractice, a justice has ruled that plaintiff’s expert may mention the ethical considerations, but may not opine that defendant violated them, committing malpractice. Details from the NYLJ.

A class action against the Bar seeking mass restitution for mistakes and wrongs by an attorney. Law Com reports that a suit in federal court seeks damages. “A Georgia judge will end up deciding whether the Florida Bar must compensate thousands of victims of disbarred Miami attorney Louis Robles out of a special victims fund.”…

Plaintiff in the legal malpractice had been convicted of insurance fraud follwoing the WTC tragedy. Then he was arrested on unrelated Federal charges. He turned around and sued his attorney. Result? Plaintiff loses, for he had no colorable claim of innocence.