Here is a subscription article from West. For those without a subscription [like us], the article is entitled: “Are Small firms that cannot afford malpractice insurance a public danger?”

Legal malpractice insurance [a/k/a sleeping insurance] is not spectacularly expensive. Solos, and small firms really cannot afford not to have it. Even $ 250,000 coverage will…

1.Moran v. McCarthy, Safrath & Carbone, P.C., 2005-05801, 2005-05806, (Index No. 17101/03) , SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, SECOND DEPARTMENT , Summary judgment for defendant attorney on the “but for” axis. Plaintiff unable to defeat SJ motion.

2.Cruciata v. Mainiero, Index 106151/04 , SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE…

OK, so we were naive. we did not know that in Texas law firms own 98% of other law firms, nor that law firms are bought and sold like, cattle? [Remember, this is Texas.]

Here Fred Baron and Lisa Blue sue Baron & Budd for a variety of commercial claims, including legal malpractice. Details.

We have not seen this before. The underlying criminal/appeal/malpractice case is a mess, and difficult to follow from this news article. No matter; the interesting item is that one of the attorneys was suspended, and when he is re-instated, and under probation, he will have to provide proof of legal malpractice insurance. Details.…

Here is a short article which outlines how South Korea plans to eliminate legal malpractice, and along the way, issue an apology. Details.

Day on Torts reports the answer to this question, at least in Alaska. When can a guardian’s attorney be liable to ward? Remember, no real privity. Answer?

The Legal Intelligencer Blog today reports that “Philadelphia judge has denied a defense motion for summary judgment in a defamation action that prompted a landmark media rights decision from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 2004.

In his most recent opinion in Bochetto v. Gibson, Judge Albert W. Sheppard Jr. ruled that it will be up…

My legal malpractice insurance questionaire asks me how I calendar. Here is an article from Seattle WA which says that 23.5% of all malpractice cases arise from faulty calendaring. The article goes on to discuss older attorneys and paper calendaring. His conclusion? “In the modern law office, almost all calendaring is done electronically. However, many…