Although new aproaches are always possible, one sees few in real life. Here is an interesting new approach.
Computers once leveled much of the playing field, allowing a sole practitioner to issue streams of “paper.” Nevertheless, the field may never be truely level.
It is the general rule in the United States, and New York that the client, either for good cause or for no cause, may terminate an attorney’s representation at any time. While the difference between “for cause” and “no cause” has been endlessly debated, a “for cause” termination may be based upon misconduct which does not rise to the level of attorney malpractice.
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A news release about two cases of “unauthorized practice” by non-attorneys, or attorneys not admitted where they were actually practicing, found this nugget. Crofton attorney David G. Whitworth Jr.tells his local paper that he has handled more than 700 legal malpractice cases.
A pending Federal law may well preempt New York’s vicarious liability law for motor vehicle lessors, says the New York State Trial Lawyers Association http://www.nystla.org.
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A new website “dedicated to recording and exposing abuses by Attorneys” has made a splash. naraca.org says that it will protect liberties and work with anyone “who has had the misfortune to cross an attorney that has committed a crime or abuse”
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What happens when the plaintiff may or may not have been able to collect from the underlying defendant? In attorney malpractice, it is always the obligation of plaintiff to
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Reported in the www.nylj.com today is an interesting case on the attorney-client relationship, attorney malpractice and non-recourse loans.
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Robert Durst of http://njlawblog.com tells us that in New Jersey, a Divorce litigant’s malpractice claim is barred by their acknowledgment of the settlement
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Joining New York in denying attorney malpractice claims based on criminal representation after a criminal convicion, cmoore.com reports that the WA Supreme Court says you can’t sue your defense attorney for malpractice after a criminal convicion.
In New York, the explanation is that a convicion is implicitly based upon adequate representation, and if there was…
Attorney malpractice, or professional malpractice is said to occur with the same frequency as medical malpractice. With more than 90,000 attorneys in New York State, and with more than 25,000 cases brought each year in New York County alone, the incidence of human mistake, deviations from good and accepted practice, and bad outcomes in litigation…
