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.

We had no idea that there was a Mandatory legal malpractice insurance fee anywhere. Read about comparative costs, especially in Oregon.

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?

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.

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.…

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????

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…

We reported on this case a short while ago. Plaintiff had her med mal case discontinued without permission, and then when she started a legal malpractice case, was told that her attorney was disciplined, only allowed to participate in mental hygiene cases and penniless. She settled the case for
$ 2000 only to find out…