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…