Here’s a rant from an appellate attorney about a South Dakota referendum seeking to sue judges. The ranter’s analysis: we need less, not more litigation, and this will simply add one more stage after trial, loss, sue the attorney, sue the judge. Details

When has a client lost its legal malpractice case even before its brought? The client loses when a similar claim has already been brought in a different setting. Its called collateral estoppel or res judicata. Here’s a fine example from the Illinois Legal Malpractice Blog. Details.

Trying to cover all of the Legal Malpractice cases, we came across this case of a hot dog vendor appearing pro-se against his attorney in the Ohio Supreme Court. details

Another permutation on legal malpractice and privity. May an insurer or re-insurer be subrogated to a legal malpractice action against an attorney defending an underlying action where no settlement was made within policy limits? Details here

Here is a law review note on privity requirements in legal malpractice in Nebraska from the Nebraska Law Review 369 [2005] commenting on Swanson v. Ptak, 268 Neb. 265, 682 N.W.2d 225 [2004].

This poor client was the victim of legal malpractice, and hired an attorney to prosecute the legal malpractice case. The attorney succeeded, then took the proceeds. Now the attorney is disciplined. The article tells us nothing about the poor client however. Details here.

Google book search opens up a brand new world in the legal malpractice field. Performing a google book search under “legal malpractice” brings up more than 700 references. One, reproduced here tells us to expect an avalanche or tsunami of suits in the near future. The balance of the list are text books and diverse…

Here’s an article about a swaggering litigator, with a legal malpractice nexus. Details