Sure, its buried in this article about a very serious topic: execution by lethal injection. The question is whether the current use of lethal injection is cruel and inhumne? Is any method of execution open to challenge? But the article reports that the Supreme Court crowd broke up when Justice Scalia asked whether the failure to suggest a different method at sentencing would be legal malpractice. Details.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP brings this discussion of a NJ legal malpractice case. Here, defendant attorney hid the dismissal of plaintiff’s case from them for 9 years. They are due not only a positive statute of limitations decision, but a “spoliation” of evidence outcome. Details below Continue Reading Spoliation of Evidence in Legal Malpractice

Law Com reports that “A New Jersey biotechnology company is accusing a leading product-liability and toxic-tort lawyer, James Tyrrell Jr., of giving fraudulent and negligent advice that cost the client more than $10 million.

In the late 1990s, Tyrrell and his firm, Latham & Watkins in Newark, convinced Artegraft Inc. of North Brunswick to pursue Johnson & Johnson in a contract dispute using a patent theory that Tyrrell manufactured without legal foundation, a suit filed in Middlesex County alleges.

As it turned out, Artegraft expended roughly $5 million in legal fees for an arbitration it had no chance of winning, the suit says. After the loss, it had to pay J&J $5 million to settle. ” details

While the main press covers the guilty pleas of Sanjay Kumar and Stephen Richards, there is a legal malpractice angle to the story. Former workers there, forced out after an internal investigation arising after the Kumar incident are continuing a legal malpractice action against their Computer Associates appointed attorneys. Thomas Liotti, a local attorney who represents an employee is quoted in this Newsday article