A wholly new rule has been set by the Chief Administrative Judge of New York Courts:

“If 60 days have elapsed after a motion has been finally submitted or oral argument held, whichever is later, an no decision has been issued by the court, counsel for the movant shall send the court a letter alerting…

Today’s NYLJ features an article on deposing attorneys as experts in their own cases by Andrew Lavoott Bluestone. This article covers many aspects of questioning a defendant attorney in his own legal malpractice case.
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The South Carolina Appellate Law Blog reports a decision regarding one litigant who settled a sexual abuse case for $ 88,000 while others in a similar situation obtained $ 105 million. Legal malpractice case dismissed. Details

Pinning down and cementing a party’s story is the essential purpose of a deposition. How do you do it with a defendant attorney? What are you permitted to ask? What must the attorney answer?

Read all about what may be done, what is allowable, and how to get the defendant attorney to commit to the…

APRL and other professional responsibility sponsors are holding a Legal Malpractice & Risk Managment Conference in Chicago during March, 2006. For information, call 312-704-3794.

Here’s a suspension from the practice of law for an attorney, all arising out of a legal malpractice case in Arkansas. The attorney owns a basketball team. Details.

Two attorneys were qualified under Daubert to testify in a legal malpractice action that a trial counsel’s failure to hire arson experts and to advance an alternate theory resulted in his client’s wrongful conviction of his disabled mother’s murder, the Kentucky Court of Appeals held Dec. 9 (David Kaplan v. Gary Wade Puckett, No. 2004-CA-001750-MR,…

What are the limits in questioning an attorney at his own deposition? May you qualify him as an attorney, and then ask him to state the appropriate standard of care? May the defendant attorney be put on the spot? These are all questions that arise from the Carvalho case. The answer is a little complicated.…