“A Fayetteville woman lost an appeal to the state Supreme Court on Thursday in a child support case involving NBA player and former Razorback basketball star Corliss Williamson.Teresa Ann Davis, who has a son with Williamson of the Sacramento Kings, appealed the dismissal of her legal malpractice lawsuit against Helena-West Helena lawyer Vandell Bland.

In its ruling Thursday, the Supreme Court said the circuit court was correct in dismissing the lawsuit and declining to award damages to Davis. Although Bland’s actions “constituted legal malpractice,” Davis could not prove she would have prevailed on her appeal, the high court said.” Full article

Here is the story in a nutshell: City attorney wants to race cars and needs money to buy into the sport. City attorney has the ability to hire outside counsel. City attorney goes to outside counsel he has hired, and gets race car money from them. City attorney ok’s big paycheck. Legal Malpractice case by city against both attorneys. Details.

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.

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 “At Piper Rudnick, we consider it our job, not the client’s, to ensure that all actions are taken in timely fashion, and that nothing slips through the cracks.”

The plaintiff alleges that it instructed Piper to obtain patent protection for its SmartToys technology in numerous jurisdictions. However, Piper allegedly “misdocketed the priority date” of a Patent Cooperation Treaty application deadline for 2000, rather than for 1999. Piper allegedly made other errors in subsequent years.

The lawsuit alleges that in 2003, Piper discovered its error. It further alleges that Piper admitted to the plaintiff that because the filing was not timely, the plaintiff would not be able to obtain patent protection for the SmartToys technology in certain foreign jurisdictions, namely Japan, South Korea, and China.”

Full Blog article.