May an attorney testify as an expert in a Legal Malpractice, or put another way, it is required that an attorney testify on behalf of plaintiff to make out a prima facie case? Here is a case which on appeal overturned the lower court, and which illustrates both sides of the question. Details from Blog 702.

Gannett Heirs succeeded, beyond their ad damnu requests with a $ 1.2 million dollar legal malpractice case against trust and estate lawyers Gunster Yoakely. As reported by the Florida Probate Litigation Blog this type of work is no place for amateurs. Details Gunster is facing a second phase of the case in which $ 7 million is at stake. We reported another Gunster case on 8/25/05

A news article from the Berkshire Eagle Newspaper [Mass.] tells an interesting story of an attorney whose client filed bankruptcy in order to avoid $ 34,000 in fines for pirating cable. Client turned around and sued his attorney for advising perjury in the bankruptcy filing. Client lost legal malpractice case. Details