Malpractice is a professional’s failure to use minimally adequate levels of care, skill or diligence in the performance of the professional’s duties, causing harm to another. In New York, attorney malpractice is defined as a “deviation from good and accepted legal practice, where the client has been proximately damaged by that deviation, but for which, there would have been a different, better or more positive outcome.”
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There is no end of irony in thi line of work. Here is a legal malpractice defense and counterclaim which was essentially precluded when defendant counter-claimant was precluded from offering expert testimony. Why? Defendant missed several discovery deadlines in naming and offering the report of the expert. Here is the decision from NJ.…

Here is a defense attorney’s tale of plaintiff attorney’s legal malpractice, written in real time about a real case. Have the corporate clients moved on to a legal malpractice attorney? Time will tell. The story.

Here is a juror’s blog on his three day attorney fee-legal malpractice case. Litigants take note. He did not like the case. Full rant.

Here is the story of a really ugly attorney-attorney conflict, which teaches the lesson that attorneys can be really vicious. Recently graduated associate leaves a small plaintiff’s PI firm, and takes a fes small cases with her. Result? Employer attorney sends what in my opinion is a totally nasty letter to the clients, carefully couching…

Anthony Lin of the New York Law Journal tells us that Kirby, Mcinerney & Squire and Bernstein,Litowitz, Berger & Grossman have won dismissal of a class-action legal malpractice case against them, after the 2d Circuit determined that they acted reasonably by not suing Arthur Anderson. A decision will be published next week.

Dallas based Strasburger & Price is defendant in a class action law suit. Here is the info from Law.Com. “Dallas-based Strasburger & Price is embroiled in a class action suit in which the firm and one of its partners are accused of helping clients defraud hundreds of investors through what the plaintiffs allege was an…

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…