The NYLJ reports that the Lawyers Fund for Client Protection shows a big spike in the monies paid out to clients. This year [2005] the amount was $ 8.1 million. Money for the Client’s fund comes from attorney registration fees.
It is likely that each dollar of re-imbursement represents a legal malpractice incident. For the…
Here is some information from Daniel Wise of the NYLJ.
Motion to Set Aside Rejected After Defense Goes Unraised
By Daniel Wise
New York Law Journal
April 12, 2006
For the lack of an objection, a $1.4 million jury verdict in an accident case must stand even though the defense had a silver bullet that…
Front page: New York Law Journal headline: Motion to set aside rejected after defense goes unraised. side bar: The law firm acknowledged that it “did not apprehend the significance of the case law” on vicarious liability.
Query: If there is a legal malpractice action to follow this case, will defense counsel argue “strategic choice?” Details…
Anthony Lin on The New York Law Journal reports that “A former police union lawyer and labor negotiator convicted on corruption charges in 1998 cannot sue one of his former defense lawyers for failing to request that a lower interest rate be applied to a judgment against him, a Brooklyn appellate court has ruled.
Richard…
Here is an article about the question of legal malpractice in the Ohio Attorney General Democratic primary race and candidate Mark Dann. Details.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Paul Hstings is the defendant in a new legal malpractice law suit for trying to destroy a legal memorandum. Partial details here.
Here is an article about a Florida attorney who has twin legal malpractice actions, for two different plaintiffs, against the New York law firm of Proskauer Rose. “Fresh from his victory over Morgan Stanley, West Palm Beach litigator has a new Big Apple target: the powerful law firm of Proskauer Rose.” Details.
A sad story of may wrongs. One of them seems to be getting an outgoing client to sign a legal malpractice waiver. Details.
1. Hartman v Morganstern, 2004-10505, (Index No. 7337/04), SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, SECOND DEPARTMENT, 2006 NY Slip Op 2497; April 4, 2006, Decided, This legal malpractice action was dismssed on documentary evidence. One cause of action came from a criminal conviction, but defendants showed that the Federal judge would have sentenced…
