Here is a story from Texas. Prominent engineer’s downfall: negligence or conspiracy ?
"The former director of a city sewer program is suing several engineering firms and three Austin lobbyists, alleging that they conspired to get him fired.
Bill Moriarty previously led the Austin Clean Water Program, the city’s $200 million effort to fix old…
The illinois Legal Malpractice Blog writes about the statute of limitations:
"A recent Illinois Appellate decision (Warnock v. Karm Winand & Patterson) stemming from a failed real estate sale addresses the issue of when the two-year statute of limitations begins to run in a legal malpractice case – is it 1) when the underlying action…
Law.Comreports that :"As Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw readies for potential claims arising out of its representation of failed commodities brokerage Refco, the Chicago law firm’s work for another bankrupt company has already triggered a $17 million suit against it.
The bankruptcy trustee for defunct health care management company CMGT Inc. has sued its…
Randy Johnson of Dallas says that legal malpractice litigation now resenbles cannibalism. "A decision this week requiring Houston trial lawyer John O’Quinn to pay at least $35.7 million to former clients may be a harbinger of a legal trend — lawyer cannibalism.
"When I started suing other lawyers in 1981, no one else wanted…
Defense attorneys in legal malpractice cases often try to use a Notice to Admit [CPLR 3123] to get over the hump of some point within their burden of proof. A notice to admit is really for use with non-controversial factual situations, for example, whether a documents is genuine, or to avoid proofs of an underlying…
Majority shareholders, minority shareholders and the company’s attorney. Who has the right to sue if things go wrong? The answer depends on who has privity with the attorney. Here is an Ohio case on the issue.
Reported by Legal Newsline: "Attorneys for majority owners of close corporations — ones allowed by law to act more informally…
Oregon has a state sponsored legal malpractice program. Here is an idiosyncratic view of the program and its imminent demise?
"My little law office was thriving. We did so many revocable trusts that my paralegal could turn them out in her spare time and I stopped paying attention. My lapse in this particular instance meant…
An interesting article in today’s NYLJ discusses General Counsel and in-house attorney issues. True Tales From the Law Department by Susan F. Friedman talks about the problems recently surfacing for these attorneys. One caught our interest:
"Health Care Entity
In an action against a health care entity in the U.S. District Court for the Southern…
Zibell v. County of Westchester, 10866/06 ;Decided: June 20, 2007 ;Justice William J. Giacomo
WESTCHESTER COUNTY Supreme Court .
Here, the attorney but not the client was sanctioned. Will further problems follow?
From the decision: "If the credibility of court orders and the integrity of our judicial system are to be maintained, a litigant…
This case was widely reported, and we discussed it yesterday. From the Decision in Ideal Steel Supply Corp. v. Beil, 20519/06 ,Decided: July 3, 2007 Justice Peter J. Kelly QUEENS COUNTY
Supreme Court
"On or about December 11, 2001, plaintiff Ideal Steel Supply Corp. retained defendant the law firm of Ross and Hardies, LLP…
