Here is a cross-border story about a Walgreen store, the Mass Land Court, legal malpractice, and discipline of attorneys.
"The state agency that oversees lawyers has concluded that there is insufficient evidence to discipline James P. Killoran for advice he offered and an emphatic promise he made during a 1999 Town Meeting, actions that paved…
Plaintiff attorney was retained by defendant Chemipal Company, and [unsuccessfully ?] tried a case for them. Fredericks sued Chemipal Company, who then brought in appellate attorney Nathan Dershowitz. Result? Lawyer loses, Chemipal Company wins, third-party legal malpractice case against Dershowitz dismissed. Fredericks v. Chemipal Ltd., 06 Civ. 966
Decided: July 6, 2007 District…
Attorney Eleanor Capogrosso is the subject of a decision of Justice Debra James, reported in today’s NYLJ. Rarely are litigants "enjoined" from bringing law suits without prior permission of the court, but this attorney apparently went too far. "After filing 16 lawsuits on her own behalf – eight pro se and eight using…
The NYLJ reports:
"Former Supreme Court Justice Lawrence I. Horowitz used his status as a judge to seek preferential police treatment for his girlfriend and to have authorities investigate the woman’s estranged husband, the state Commission on Judicial Conduct said yesterday.
The commission announced that Mr. Horowitz, who resigned on June 20, has signed a…
Jackson Lewis LLP reports this Federal Case from the DC Circuit which holds that they are taxable.
"DC Circuit rules that damages for non-physical injury are subject to federal taxation
Jackson Lewis LLP
USA
July 13 2007
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has resolved the constitutional question…
Plaintiff’s cause of action for negligent misrepresentation was dismissed as duplicitive in this 2nd Department case. Iannucci v Kucker & Bruh, LLP ;2007 NY Slip Op 06026 ;Decided on July 10, 2007 ;Appellate Division, Second Department
"The Supreme Court should have granted those branches of the defendants’ motion which were, in effect, pursuant to…
Steven Seagal is now suing Loeb & Loeb over the Julius Nasso incident. Loeb & Loeb has already won a determination that any legal malpractice case has to be arbitrated; this arbitration provision is found in its retainer agreement, and in the Nasso v. Loeb & Loeb case, got the AD to uphold the…
May a criminal defendant speak with his attorney during cross-examination and overnight? The rule, as reported by is reported by Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP .
:The Second Circuit recently clarified the law relating to communications between a defendant and his attorney during the defendant’s ongoing trial testimony. In U.S. v. Triumph Capital…
We have never heard anything like this. This attorney goes to trial, and has an indian MD linked up, in real time, and listening to the proceedings.
"U.S. lawyer Dorothy Clay Sims has started using medical experts in India for help in legal cases:
Sims has reduced [medical expert costs] by hiring medical experts…
Missing a court date is bad. Worse is having your computer e-mail system make you miss the date, and having the judge hold a hearing at which you have to produce your IT guy, all to explain how it happened.
Here is a Washington Post article telling how it all went bad.
"The trouble at…
