Conflict of interest between a race car enthusiast, a NASCAR event, and the legal field, has led to a legal malpractice case, and an enviromental pollution case. “Since 2004, the city has settled with many businesses, including the Lodi News-Sentinel. Other parties are in negotiations, and water rates have been raised to pay for the…

You may not be able to sue for this type of malpracice, but it is awful. Here are some examples of criminal law legal malpractice. As they all took place in murder cases, people might wrongly die for the mistakes. Details.

We reported this several weeks ago. Client is told that defendant attorney is suspended and penniless, and settles case for $ 2000. Then she find out he is the highest paid mental hygiene attorney in West Virginia. Now she and another are trying to get the case re-opened and claim some of those earnings. Details…

Everyone thinks about legal malpractice. It is the metafor for a mistake of the most fundimental sort during a cognative process. Whew! What it really means is that people think of legal malpractice as a wrong turn in the very center of helping another person. Here a nurse consultant believes that in the future they…

We find this report shocking. Coudert Brothers files bankruptcy over a $2.5 million legal malpractice verdict. Questions: No Insurance? No income? What could have happened to this ancient firm?

“Defunct firm Coudert Brothers is nearing its official end after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court late…

The NYLJ today reports that the New York Court of Appeals will hear a case of legal malpractice dismissed by Justice York and unanimously affirmed by the Appellate Division. This is most unusual!

“The Court of Appeals yesterday agreed to review a case where a legal malpractice claim against Davis Polk & Wardwell was thrown…

New sites allowing consumers to rate doctors, lawyers and others are popping up. Here is a short blurb from the International Herald Journal on the phenominon. “The phenomenon began with Web sites like RateMyProfessors.com, which lets American college students evaluate faculty by posting anonymous comments that are often entertaining and sometimes scathing.

Now, in hopes…

This nightmare ranks with being naked in school, losing your homework, etc. Here the lawyer was late in filing with the US Supreme Court. How much worse can it get? “Every lawyer’s nightmare — inadvertently missing a court filing deadline — has come true for Roy Englert Jr. Adding to the pain is that the…