Law.Com reports: "A unanimous panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal upheld a $1 million legal malpractice judgment against the law firm Gunster Yoakley & Stewart awarded to the heirs of the Gannett newspaper fortune.
The case arose from a dispute over the estate of Charles V. McAdam Jr., a wealthy Palm Beach,…
This case takes a graph to try to understand. Here is a legal malpractice case in Texas, involving BP and an explosion.
Plaintiffs hire attorney Krist to sue BP, after an explosion. Krist successfully sues BP and settles the case, taking no fee. Krist represented the husband only, and not the wife in a loss…
Small town law is a different animal. NYC lawyers often have no experience, or forget how different law is in the outlying districts. The NY Times recently ran a series of articles on justice courts upstate, and on the thousands of non-lawyer judges there.
Here is a shocking story. Small town judge [actually a…
This interesting twist on an old fashioned desire to win an appeal comes from Texas. Attorney brings legal malpractice case and loses. He goes to a hearing with his own court reporter, saying it’s to capture any off the record comments by the judge, "in order to to capture for purposes of an appeal…
First, our disclosure. We were a prosecutor, and we have done a little criminal defense work, but we have never been in this position, as told by Law.Blog
"A public defender in Ohio was arrested on Thursday for contempt of court after he declined to move forward with a misdemeanor assault trial he had been…
Legal malpractice is not just about missed personal injury statutes, nor about simple failures in calendar practice. Here is an anti-trust legal malpractice case involving Mylan Labs and the Eliot Disner law firm. The lab paid out more than $ 150 million in penalties and disgorgement.
"In June, Mylan Laboratories Inc. and UDL Laboratories…
Law Com relays this story of an attorney-executor who had control of an estate’s charitible contributions, and is now being sued for his selection of where to give away the money.
"A Pittsburgh no-kill animal shelter has filed a five-count lawsuit against a Pittsburgh attorney, alleging that he illegally reduced its portion of a wealthy…
Law.Com reports that the KPMG trial continues, and more attorney witnesses are being called to testify.
"Collateral damage from the KPMG tax shelter imbroglio has struck Hogan & Hartson and two of the firm’s most prominent attorneys — Prentiss Feagles, co-director of the firm’s tax practice, and Paul Rogers, a partner in the firm’s…
Its a horrible story. A respected person, in this case a judge, convicted of rape, reversed and exonorated on appeal now sues for legal malpractice. Forgetting the technical issues of arbitration or trial of the legal malpractice case, how terrible a situation is this?
Here is the nightmare: you have a good case against an international hotel corporation for lack of security, and you have a badly injured client. Do you take the case or refer it to a law firm that has done this type of work before? As many attorneys know, sadly, trying to sue Club Med requires…
