A case from Denver tells the story of an incorrect fee to the court, and deportation. After trial, the jury found that there was no proximate cause between a check to the clerk for too little and a deportation order from INS.
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The ABA issued a report earlier this year on how small firms can help to avoid legal malpractice. Details here.

Originally reported here, the Gundlach,Lee legal malpractice action continues.
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Jimmie E. Gates writes in the Clarion Ledger that that a $1.3 million dollar legal malpractice action against Baker, Donelson, Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC has been dismissed by Mississippi State Supreme Court. Details.

Tom Perotain the New York Law Journal writes of a facinating lawyer on lawyer fight before a special referee.

This is a legal malpractice on a legal malpractice arising from a matrimonial case. Apparently the client went to a malpractice attorney before her matrimonial action was over, and then was disadvantaged because the matrimonial attorney would not give up the file.

Stife and litigation ensued between W.Robert Curtis and David Bushman then battled over whether the client owed her matrimonial attorney about $ 28,000 in fees.

The bizarre special referee’s hearing lasted for weeks, ending with a finding that the matrimonial attorney had suborned perjury, and with Curtis unsuccessfully asking for about $ 400,000 in fees.

The result? It seems that everyone loses. The matrimonial attorney doesn’t get paid and is found to have suborned perjury. Curtis doesn’t get paid. The client apparently did not get custody of her children.

Here are some experts from the story:
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Should legal malpractice causes of action be tradeable? You decide. Baker Botts has this book for sale if you are interested.

For those truly interested in the statistics of legal malpractice and insurance, take a look at this highly detailed article about legal malpractice and insurance in Missouri.

“Attorneys Rendering Incorrect Advice on Statute of Limitations Subject to Malpractice Liability Despite Viability of Underlying Action at the Time of Withdrawal” is a new report by Hinshaw & Culbertson. Their e-mailed article describes an Illinois case. This was a twisted series of attorney-client meetings and advice that the statute was 2 years rathern…