In New York, attorneys who are appointed by the court, including receivers, referees, guardians ad litem and others, may not be sued for legal malpractice, or in some cases, may not be sued at all without prior express court approval of the law suit. Recent cases have required the Attorney General to defend them when…

Everybody was hurt in this tragic legal malpractice and bankruptcy case. A child is killed, her brother was driving, the parents don’t want to sue their son in the car accident, father’s job closes its business, parents file bankruptcy, trustee starts car negligence action, bankruptcy discharged, case settles, money goes to parents rather than trustee,…

Take a look at today’s NYLJ for this author’s discussion of Legal Malpractice, Client termination of its attorney, and the after-effects.

Being sued for legal malpractice seems to be the smallest of this attorney’s problems. Currently she is jailed for contempt. She can’t explain where the missing $ 861,000 is, and has also been accused of taking $ 1.5 million from another client. Besides all this, she’s being sued for legal malpractice elsewhere. Details.…

Anthony Lin reports today in the NYLJ on a case in which a departing attorney used the firm logo on his retainer agreement, and other forms. Jacoby & Myers formally dissolved in 1999 [don’t they still advertise?], and one of the attorneys earlier involved continued to use the logo.

Plaintiff’s case was never filed, and…

The Illinois Legal Malpractice Blog reports a legal malpractice case which turns on whether an act declared unconstitutional was void ab initio or allowed for a reasonable time thereafter to remedy a late complaint.

The legal malpractice case was timely if filed under th new law. The trouble: this new law was declared unconstitutional. The…

1. Solon v. Tormey, 1542 CA 04-02353 , SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, FOURTH DEPARTMENT , 2006 NY Slip Op 891; February 3, 2006, Decided,
Question: Did the plaintiff investigate this case at all? Plaintiff accuses attorney of conversion of 400,000 shares of stock in a gas corporation that had been entrusted…

We reported on this case on 1/10/06. The case continues, and decisions are due on dispositive motions in this Florida Class Action and Legal Malpractice suit. Details.