This article thinks so. Read the details.

All right, legal malpractice litigation is usually about money. Plaintiffs sue for lost money, defendant attorneys resist the demands for compensation, and the insurance carriers calculate the cost of defense in dollars.

Here is a case which goes one step further. Jail?

Here is a report of a $ 2.9 million settlement in Texas concerning the law firm of Hilgers & Watkins. Details Continue Reading $ 2.9 Million Legal Malpractice Settlement in Austin, TX

In states other than NY, criminal defendants may sue their attorney after a conviction. In NY they may not. Here is a case from New Hampshire where the statute of limitations was tolled during incarcaration, permitting a legal malpractice case after. Report is from the Nelson Kindler blog.

John A. Day, in his Day on Torts reports on a Legal Malpractice case in which the attorney was defendant’s attorney in a ladder product liability case. The interesting point of his blog is that the focus of legal malpractice actions has veered away from simple blown statutes of limitation to questions of trial witnesses, use of evidence and the quality of cross-examination. These questions have traditionally been seen as “stragegy” issues, and presumably not subject to legal malpractice analysis. His take? More and more cases are being brought in the legal malpractice strategy/trial questions area, and will continue. Details.

Successfully sued for defamation, plaintiff turns and sues not only its defamation defense counsel in legal malpractice, but also its insurance carrier in bad faith. Plaintiff wins a big verdict from the jury, but the court now grants judgment notwithstanding the verict, dismissing not only the bad faith claim, but also the legal malpractice action. End result? Plaintiff won the battle but lost the war. The defendant attorney was Margolis Edelstein, and its own defense counsel was Spector, Gadon & Rosen, and the insurance company’s attorney was DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary

To show the worldwide nature of the legal malpractice industry, with its plaintiff’s bar, defendant’s bar, its insurers and experts, here is an article out of England, reported by a worldwide law firm, concerning a California legal malpractice case. The issue is a garden or varietal case of continuing representation and the statute of limitations in legal malpractice. Details.

Henry Gottlieb in the NJLJ writes about a NJ case in which an insurance company sued its defense counsel who had defended at a personal injury action. It is most unusual for an insurance defense counsel to be sued by its erstwhile employer. Details and a very detailed look at a complex subject.