Attorney Michael C. Donovan thought up a new legal strategy. He wrote and sponsored a local ordinance requiring insurers to pay for cleanup of perchloroethylene in the city’s groundwater.
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Continuing a trend, attorneys not retained by plaintiffs are being sued. Once a mere exception to the general rule of “privity”, more attorneys are being sued for their opinion letters.
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Plaintiff sues defendant law firm over securities trading advice. During discovery, defendant DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary http://www.dlapiper.com may seek information from LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae http://www.ligm.com and Seward & Kissel http://www.sewkis.com. What is different and interesting about this decision
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Anthony Lin in The New York Law Journal http://www.nylj.com reports that SDNY Judge Gerard Lynch has permitted a lawsuit by JPMorgan Credit and a syndicate of banks to proceed.
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The New York law firm Fox Horan & Camirini http://www.foxhoran.com has been found liable for mishandling an arbitration in which $10 million was awarded against their client.
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In New York, the rule generally is that “privity” is necessary. That is, you may sue only your own attorney. There are exceptions, however.
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Who’s responsible for the investigator’s bill, or the process server’s or the court reporter’s bill, client or client and attorney?
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A question often arises in professional and attorney malpractice cases when the plaintiff has settled the underlying case, rather than just lost it. Can the plaintiff settle yet sue afterwards ?>
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