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.

“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 Court.”

“Barton is alleged to have been negligent and careless by: Failing to provide the minimum standard of care, failing to act with a degree of competence, failing to adequately advise a client, failing to provide adequate accounting, excessive billing, misappropriating funds, overcharging the estate, losing the file and failing to protect the file.
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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 most difficult question of all. Here are the details from the article.

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.