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…

A case before Justice Cahn in Supreme Court, New York County, reported today in the NYLJ continues after an unsuccessful summary judgment decision. “DEFENDANT LAW firm moved for summary judgment on plaintiff’s claim, including legal malpractice, arguing it neither knew of nor represented the parties in the transaction involving Voluto and plaintiff’s independent actions constituted…

Here is a short reprint of a California case where the case was too old before the attorneys even saw it for the first time. “The plaintiff in a toxic mold lawsuit had no viable malpractice claim against her lawyers over their settlement of her case, since her cause of action was time-barred before she…

Lok Lau, who was formerly an undercover FBI agent, was fired. He appears to have been swept up in other criminal proceedings, and hired defendant attorney to sue for employment discrimination. He lost and now sues. “A former FBI special agent who was fired by the bureau after spending years undercover in the late 1980s…