Here is an article about a Mass. legal malpractice law suit which involved attorneys working for the court, and a 15 year time span. More interesting is the statistic quoted near the end. 23,193 legal malpractice lawsuits nationwide during 2000-2003, with about 2/3 resulting in compensation. Details.

Here is a variant on the “$2.9 million Legal Malpractice Settlement in Austin Tx” which we published on 2/10/06. Here the publication cites a $ 5 million settlement and names one of the defendant attorneys, announcing that he is a “legal malpractice” expert. See for yourself.

Everyone made nice and the attorney who chose jail over legal malpractice has been released, and permitted to return to his criminal defense docket. Details.

This article thinks so. Read the details.

All right, legal malpractice litigation is usually about money. Plaintiffs sue for lost money, defendant attorneys resist the demands for compensation, and the insurance carriers calculate the cost of defense in dollars.

Here is a case which goes one step further. Jail?

Here is a report of a $ 2.9 million settlement in Texas concerning the law firm of Hilgers & Watkins. Details
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In states other than NY, criminal defendants may sue their attorney after a conviction. In NY they may not. Here is a case from New Hampshire where the statute of limitations was tolled during incarcaration, permitting a legal malpractice case after. Report is from the Nelson Kindler blog.

John A. Day, in his Day on Torts reports on a Legal Malpractice case in which the attorney was defendant’s attorney in a ladder product liability case. The interesting point of his blog is that the focus of legal malpractice actions has veered away from simple blown statutes of limitation to questions of trial witnesses,…