I was leafing through a dog-eared advance sheets and came across this well written Supreme Court case authored by Justice Rolando T. Acosta, which discusses the breadth of discovery permitted by defendant attorneys of successor attorneys once a legal malpractice action is started.
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I couldn’t ignore this story of a Phillipines TV star attorney disciplined after a legal malpractice case against him. Details.

The New York Attorney Malpractice Blog and Andrew Lavoott Bluestone has been awarded First Place in the Hewlett Packard Law Technology contest for its innovation over this past year.

The award is for the use of digital technology at the Bluestone Law Firm and in the Blog. The New York Attorney Blog uses LexBlog to…

The Miami Business Reporter, a West publication reports it’s becoming more and more widespread. Detalis, with subscriptiont required.

Paul J. Israelson writes in todays NYLJ about a pitfall, which while well settled and recognized, is often overlooked. If plaintiff files for bankruptcy, in any chapter, between the date of the malpractice and the inception of the legal malpractice case, the cause of action really belongs to the bankruptcy estate, which is controlled by…

Mayor Gionfriddo of Middletown CT is reportedly the subject of a plethora of lawsuits, both legal malpractice and other. This Middletown CT article lays out the sad story.

It’s an interesting variant on the question of privity, but this Maryland case allows a guardian ad litem to be sued for legal malpractice, even though there was no attorney-client relationship in the usual terms. Details.

Although not entirely on the point of legal malpractice, here is a blog entry about Legal advertisin and legal malpractice by Allison C. Shields in her Legal Ease blog.. Here, plaintiff sued attorney for early and insufficient settlement, alleging that attorney advertised its quality and high settlements, along with legal malpractice.