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.
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Legal Malpractice and Stealing from the Estate
“A Dunbar woman is accusing Barton Law Office of misappropriating funds from her dead mother’s estate.
Karen Richardson, acting as Executrix of the Estate of Freeda Pringle, says Jeffrey Barton and Barton Law Office stole at least $25,000 from Pringle’s estate and lost her case file in a lawsuit filed July 27 in Kanawha Circuit…
Computer Jury Selection and Legal Malpractice
No matter how many computer or digital improvements there are, each eventually becomes immeshed in the web of success and mistake, adequate and inadequate representation and legal malpractice. When there is a winner and a loser, the lose will eventually look at legal malpractice. Was it malpractice or simply a bad outcome? Therein lies the…
Pre-Nup Statute of Limitations and Legal Malpractice
When does a Statute of Limitations start to run on a pre-nuptual agreement in Minn? This court ruled that it started on the marriage date, not the date of dissolution. Details.
How much does it cost to be a lawyer? Oregon Mandatory Legal Malpractice Fees
We had no idea that there was a Mandatory legal malpractice insurance fee anywhere. Read about comparative costs, especially in Oregon.
St. Claire Legal Malpractice and Underinsured Coverage
This is a short report of a fairly ordinary legal malpractice. Of interest is the claim that defendant failed to tell plaintiff of the statute of limitations. The usual allegation would be that the defendant failed to bring the matter within the statute. Is there more to the story?
Texas Politics, Fred Baron and Legal Malpractice
This entry apparently comes from a politically hostile blog. It recounts how a strongly Democratic trial attorney is suing his own firm for, amoungst others, Legal Malpractice. The rest is commentary.
West Virginia Motorcycle Accident and Legal Malpractice
A single motorcycle accident spawned a plethora of lawsuits, and now, an appeal to the Supreme Court of West Virginia. Attorneys collected money in each matter, but the last was sued for legal malpractice for not collecting enough. Plaintiff lost at the trial level, and now argues that defendant could have collected more. Details.…
$18 Million Ohio Legal Malpractice and Bad Faith
We reported on this last week. 8000 plaintiffs, the collapse of a medical insurance fund, and a $18 Million legal malpractice verdict. This article says that the carrier could have settled for $1 million. Bad Faith to come????
Long and Tortured Case and Sanctions. Legal Malpractice to come?
Reported today in the NYLJ, plaintiff won a discrimination case. Now the battle has ranged into a legal fees dispute with her attorney. Even on the verge of winning, plaintiff herself has been sanctioned $5000 by Justice Acosts of Supreme Court, New York County for a series of ex-parte faxes. “A Manhattan judge has sanctioned…