Imagine a scene from a ’30s movie, set in the stix. A different life there, so different from the big city. For a long time both legal malpractice and medical malpractice clung to the “standards of the community” analysis, allowing a different standard of care or treatment for the country folk and the city folk.…

Here is a blog blurb from a California appeals blog on how difficult it is to sue a criminal defense attorney for legal malpractice after a conviction, whether by plea or verdict.

We reported this case, albeit from a different point of view a couple of weeks ago. Here is another blog report from the real estate attorney’s point of view. The blog is Closing Real Estate in Chicago. The blurb.

Rutgers puts the NJ appellate decisions online, and easily searchable. Here is a case which discusses time limits for a motion to reconsider, evidentiary showing necessary, new arguments on appeal, the use of a joint expert in a matrimonial, proximate cause, and the relationship between an attorney’s work and the materials with which he must…

Here is a long discussion of a commercial litigation over general and limited partnership distributions, and a legal malpractice case against the adversary’s attorney, which failed. Full Case

Here is an excellent and well written decision which discusses many aspects of legal fees after termination or withdrawal in a contingent case.

Here is a really excellent article from today’s NYLJ on various calendar dismissals and how to fix them by a law clerk from the Appellate Division, First Department.

“Laxness Dismissal Survival Guide: Restoring Actions

By John R. Higgitt
New York Law Journal
November 1, 2006

One of the main objectives of the civil justice system…

The law suit was over missing African art. Plaintiff claims that defendant’s attorney falsely represented to the court that the art had been seized by Manhattan prosecutors. It was not, and defendant absconded with the art. Yesterday, Judge Cote of SDNY denied summary judgment, and ruled that the case had to be tried. There were…