The NYLJ reports today that
"A federal judge in Manhattan has thrown out a lawsuit filed against Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison by the onetime private banker to former WorldCom Inc. chief executive officer Bernard Ebbers.
David H. Trautenberg, the former co-head of Citigroup’s private wealth management group, sued Paul Weiss in December for…
In another Estate and Beneficiary case, plaintiff loses in this Missouri case/ The Show Me Blog reports:
"Missouri court of Appeals Southern District dismisses deceased heirs’ combined suit against deceased’s second wife and the law firm that prepared their joint wills after widow disinherited the deceased’s children after he died."
Law is the underlying organizer of all things human. No part of society is truely lawless, and everything that has to do with the government is law based. No surprise, but here is a blurb from farm and farmer rights activists, touching on legal malpractice.
"Some USDA employees, including a top official in the…
In this NJ Case, the client had an illetimate purpose in bringing the law suit. Plaintiffs proved the case for malicious prosecution against the client, but not against the client’s attorney.
Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla represented a beach club owner in a failed defamation suit against a neighbor. The neighbor, having won, countersued the…
Imagine having made enough on a case to have to repay $ 62 Million! FromLaw Com:
"Three attorneys accused of bilking their clients in a diet drug settlement must repay at least $62.1 million in settlement funds and interest, a Kentucky judge ruled Friday.
Special Judge William Wehr ordered William J. Gallion, 56…
Estate and surrogate proceedings create a unique problem in legal malpracitce. May the estate sue the transactional [will] lawyer? Does a beneficiary have a relationship with the attorney. Here, in this case we see another face of the problem. In Velasquez v Katz ,2007 NY Slip Op 06275 , Decided on July 31, 2007…
"In New York an attorney may not be held liable for errors in judgment" So goes the black-letter law. Here is an illustration of two principals from this Michigan case. The first is that legal malpractice claims regarding an appeal are not jury questions. The second is that errors of judgment are not a solid foundation…
Austin Texas Blogspot reports this multi-state, multi-court personal injury – bakruptcy – legal malpractice case arising from an auto accident. Texas, California, personal jurisdiction, the place of the wrong. All are mixed in this swirl. Eric Red v. John Doherty and Doherty & Catlow, A Law Corporation,
No. 03-06-00478-CV (Tex.App.- Austin, Jul. 20, 2007)(Opinion…
In a recent successful case, plaintiff was a large real estate management company. Plaintiff was involved in a 500 million dollar financing involving 3 NYC downtown buildings. The general counsel asked one of the multiple large firms whether "mortgage spreading" could be used to avoid payment of new mortgage tax. When told "no", the financing…
Should the client’s legal malprctice award be for the entire sum or should there be a deduction for the contingent fee the negligent attorney would have won? The debate runs like this; [For the full amount] The client will have to hire a malpractice attorney to sue the negligent attorney, and will have to pay…
