A statute of limitations may be tolled by agreement or by fraud. Here is a California case in which the attorney agreed to a tolling, then left the firm. The toll remained in effect against the firm. Details.

The essence of good and adequate legal practice may well lie in the small details: when and when to file a new law suit. An article in today’s New York Law Journal tells of an easy to make mistake in filing a “special proceeding”. These cases are often subject to a very short statute of limitations, arising from a denial by government and an Artcle 78 proceedings.
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Jessica M. Walker reports in Law.com A legal malpractice case in which “a Miami city commissioner is calling for a criminal investigation into a $7 million settlement brokered by a prominent Miami attorney in a lawsuit filed by four city property owners claiming that the city levied an unconstitutional fire rescue tax.” This matter has…

Here is an interesting Florida article about legal malpractice in a receiver-forecloure setting. Details.

Here’s a much longer article on the Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman legal malpractice case from Supreme Court, New York County, by Anthony Lin.
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Here is the full text of the La Cote Legal Malpractice matrimonial case reported here on 1/5/06. Text of Case below.
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Here is a case of a builder-defendant who was successfully sued both in his corporate and individual capacity after negligently building a house. He sued his defense attorneys after losing. One basis was that they never moved to have the case dismissed against him individually, when his corporation was solvent and not fraudulent. The NJ…

The NYLJ today reports that the Weil Gotshal legal malpractice case in Texas [reported here] will remain in Bankruptcy court, and will not be tried before a jury.