Jarndyce v. Jarndyce was a Dicken’s fabulation found in Bleak House. The story goes that a battle in Chancery Court over an inheritance went on so long that the legal fees depleted the entire estate.
Here, in this story, is the modern analog. A suit for legal fees blossoms into a 7 year war,…
Its a wrestling match in San Diego, CA between the local Union-Times newspaper and the city attorney, involving, among other things, legal malpractice law suits. Details.
A sign of our times? Even when a lawfirm wants to coordinate pro-bono, [that’s free work] they have to put together legal malpractice insurance. Details.
Why an apartment rental agency would quote us is unknown, but touching.
Here is a web site which lists attorneys who handle legal malpractice cases. Website
This is probably a once in a decade kind of case, but here is an assistant district attorney, on the cusp of retirement, and dating the complaining witness. He has the power of arrest [if she does not cooperate in prosectution], all of which makes for a superheated atmosphere. Wasn’t this a movie somewhere? Now…
Anthony Lin, in the http://NYLJ.com today reports on a matter we wrote about long ago: “Judge Dismisses Malpractice Claim Against Herrick Feinstein A state judge has thrown out a legal malpractice suit against Herrick, Feinstein. The law firm had been sued by former client James Agate, who claimed Herrick Feinstein lawyers Anthony Jakoby and…
Here is an experpt from the Judicial Reports Blog, which asks the question: can participation in the summary 1 day Bronx trials [new idea] comprise legal malpractice?
“For some legal malpractice attorneys, however, such justice lite could expose attorneys to more malpractice claims in anything but the simplest slip-and-fall or motor vehicle cases.
`When you…
“The U.S. Attorney’s Office here is looking into former Chicago Alderman Bill Singer’s role in a controversial Near North Side land deal in which a local medical school says it was cheated out of millions of dollars.
According to a legal malpractice suit the medical school filed last month against its former attorney, the attorney…
“A Fayetteville woman lost an appeal to the state Supreme Court on Thursday in a child support case involving NBA player and former Razorback basketball star Corliss Williamson.Teresa Ann Davis, who has a son with Williamson of the Sacramento Kings, appealed the dismissal of her legal malpractice lawsuit against Helena-West Helena lawyer Vandell Bland.
In…
