Buried within the political and social commentary on the president’s nominee, Harriet Miers, is a nugget of legal malpractice information. Blue Mass. Group tells us that while the nominee was a managing partner at Locke Liddell she approved settlement of two huge legal malpractice cases. One settlement was for an allegation that the law firm knew of an ongoing fraud and failed to take action, and the second case was similar. The two cases settled for $ 30 million. The web site quotes David Sirota of Huff Post.

The New York Law Journal reports a case which quotes a famous 1697 line from a William Congreve play: “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, and hell has no fury like a woman scorned.” In this legal malpractice case, a matrimonial, the issues is whether the attorney was his or her’s. Continue Reading Legal Malpractice: Whose attorney is it?

The Wall Street Journal reports today that “More U.S. Legal Work Moves to India’s Low Cost Lawyers.” Eric Bellman and Nathan Koppel write that Pangea3, a New York based global legal outsourcing company has more than 25 lawyers in india and over 20 US customers. Continue Reading Legal Malpractice in US and India’s Lawyers

Does legal malpractice occur more often in small or large firms? What are the indicators or causes of legal malpractice on an institutional level? These issues are discussed and analyzed by My Shingle://www.myshingle.com in an interesting article entitled Malpractice Isn’t Only A Small Firm Problem. Continue Reading Legal Malpractice in Small and Large firms