Read thisarticle, if only for the photograph of Sgt. Schultz, and the "I knew nothing" tag.
"The case of Consolidated Sports Media Group v. Godwin Gruber, which is scheduled to go to trial next month, reads at times like a John Grisham novel, complete with allegations of malpractice, the aforementioned pump-and-dump stock scams…
It’s not entirely clear how the relationship between Attorney Fishkin and Marlow arose with Attorney Taras but it appears that Taras referred cases to Fishkin, or Fishkin was hired by Taras to work on the cases. many settled, but Fishkin and Marlow were not paid. They sued Taras for legal fees and lost on the basis…
A new release tells us that Elizabeth A. Starrs has been elected President of the Colorado Bar Association. Relevance to this blog is that she has “tried more legal malpractice cases than any other lawyer in Colorado.”
Continue Reading Colorado Bar Association and Legal Malpractice
This is a niche within a niche field. Here is a new review of a legal malpractice text in the Sarbanes Oxley act area.
A third hand report of a legal malpractice case, won by plaintiffs at the trial level, lost at the Nevada Supreme Court level and denied cert by the US Supreme Court.
Continue Reading Legal Malpractice and the US Supreme Court
The Law Journal online services reports that Epstein Becker Green has been sued in a huge action.
Continue Reading Legal Malpractice and the Big Firms
Here’s an interesting article. It’s old, but it’s a University of Chicago Law review article by Tom Bell
Without specifically saying so, a Hiscock & Barclay blog opines that collectability is the burden of plaintiff in the Second Department. However, there is a recent conflicting case in the First Department, Lindenman v. Kreitzer, 7 AD3d 30 [1st Dept 2004], see: 7/11/05 “Collectability in Attorney Malpractice” on this site.
Legal malpractice appears in all areas of legal work, and is more apparent to specialized practitioners than to the lay public or the general attorney population. Here is an example of a Patent Law Blog dealing with attorney malpractice. It deals with conflict of interest.
What are the elements of Professional Malpractice?
Malpractice is a professional’s failure to use minimally adequate levels of care, skill or diligence in the performance of the professional’s duties, causing harm to another. In New York, attorney malpractice is defined as a “deviation from good and accepted legal practice, where the client has been proximately…
