Plaintiff’s parent’s home was wrongly demolished by the city. They later died and the son sued the city, its officials and various attorneys for civil rights and legal malpractice. The case went to the US Supreme Court, and is now back in District Court at the pleading stages. Details.

We reported this case twice in the past month. Here is a more detailed news article which explains this West Virginia car accident legal malpractice case in detail.

15 volumns of material were unsealed in a legal malpractice case in Hawaii. Here are the details of the case.

Here is a story from Ohio, which is too familiar. Attorney takes case, doesn’t file it, lies to client, tells her there is a $ 30,000 offer for which he’ll take no fee [was he ready to pay the client $30,000?] and then it gets worse. Details.

Yet another report from the Internet and Class Action Blog on DLA Piper and Legal Malpractice.

“Aidentity Matrix Entertainment filed a lawsuit against DLA Piper alleging that Piper had a duty to docket “all deadlines, domestic and foreign, for its clients’ patent applications.” Indeed, the plaintiff points to Piper’s web site which allegedly states that…

“The bankruptcy trustee for former clients of Dallas’ Godwin Gruber has filed a professional negligence and breach of fiduciary duties suit against the firm and two former shareholders, alleging the defendants mishandled a patent infringement case.

The original petition names the firm — now known as Godwin Pappas Langley Ronquillo — and former shareholders Arthur…

We get this from the Internet and Class Action Blog.

“A $19 million class action lawsuit has been filed against DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP (as successor in interest to Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe, LLP). The lawsuit alleges that the defendant law firm committed professional negligence and legal malpractice in drafting documents relating…

We credit Illinois Legal Malpractice Blog with this story on an Illinois legal malpractice case which gives the Illinois rule on Collectablibity and Strategy defenses there – both affirmative defenses. The story.