Judicial Reports tells the tale of a 4 time elevator plaintiff who eventually lost and then sued his attorneys.  The case doesn’t come right out and say it, but:

"The plaintiff allegedly was injured in several elevator accidents at his place of employment. An action to recover damages for personal injuries was commenced…

Try to figure out the tangled web in this land – real estate – develepoment – municipal case taking place in Texas. "The law firm of Godwin Pappas Ronquillo LLP, representing the City of Celina, filed a lawsuit on April 19 against the defendants Robert Brown and Brown and Hofmeister LLP.

In the lawsuit between…

The Court of Appeals decided two interesting legal malpractice cases today.  AmBase v. Davis Polk is one and Rudolph v. Shayne Dachs is the second. Rudolph is interesting on at least two counts.

In this case plaintiff was injured as a pedestrian.  Defendant law firm asked for the wrong jury instruction, and as a result…

This case, in which DP represented AmBase Corp. involved litigation in a tax matter.  AmBase sued DP on the theory that it never owed taxes, and DP failed to represent it carefully.  Supreme Court, New York County dismissed the case, the AD 1 affirmed, the Court of Appeals granted leave to appeal, and then…

From the W Va Record: "CHARLESTON – A Kanawha County attorney is being sued by his former clients who claim he failed to file their lawsuit within the statute of limitations period.

Dayton Price and Suzan Price named Stephen P. Swisher as defendant in a lawsuit filed April 11 in Kanawha Circuit Court.

The…

From Law Com:

"Popular belief, at least in medical communities, holds that juries in medical malpractice cases tend to side with plaintiffs, even where the case against a doctor is a weak one.

But jurors actually tend to believe doctors more than they do plaintiffs, says a law professor who examined numerous data on medical…

The end of the relationship can come from any number of reasons, but the end is reached either before or at the end of the underlying litigation.

<strong>Termination by client</strong>

It is the general rule in the United States, and the rule in New York that an attorney’s representation of a client may be terminated…

It is the general rule in the United States, and New York that the client, either for good cause or for no cause, may terminate an attorney’s representation at any time. While the difference between "for cause" and "no cause" has been endlessly debated, a "for cause" termination may be based upon misconduct which does…