the NYLJ today reports:
"The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct voted Tuesday to curb the responsibilities of its chairman, celebrity divorce lawyer Raoul Felder.
The vote came in the wake of Friday’s "no confidence" vote in Felder because of what the commission described as the "racial, ethnic and religious invective" in "Schmucks!" a…
Cassandra Crottyreports in the Illinois Legal Malpractice Blog that:
"Insurer Able To Proceed With Legal Malpratice Lawsuit
An Illinois appellate court recently reversed a circuit court entry of summary judgment in favor of a lawyer and his Park Ridge law firm, holding that an insurance company can proceed with its legal malpractice lawsuit…
Here is a newspaper article recounting the story of a rape-security trial at which the attorney failed to show. Legal malpracitce and a roller coaster of dismissal, reversal, affirmance followed.
"The state Supreme Court declined Wednesday to hear a case in which a state appeals court ruled an Escondido rape victim can sue two civil…
Plaintiff loses on appeal in this legal malpractice case. Injured in a casino after slipping and falling in vomit, the attorney sent a claim letter but did nothing further, the statute of limitations then running out. AD: no proof of notice to the casino, and legal malpractice case must be dismissed.
"The issue in…
On appeal this legal malpractice arising from a medical malpractice case reated a partial reversal after suffering dismissal in Supreme Court. The attorney who was defended by Kaufman Borgeest Ryan attorney Michael Furman won his appeal. Attorney Mondora, representing himself, lost, and had his dismissal reversed. A pyrrhic victory against a pro-se uninsured attorney??
They say that this med mal case closed down an organ transplant hospital program in LA. Doctors were rejecting viable organs and keeping transplant paitients waiting. Plaintiff successfully sued, then learned more.
"A state appeals court has resurrected the malpractice lawsuit that helped shut down UCI Medical Center’s troubled liver transplant program.
A lower-court judge…
This short news article tells us that this law firm has a lot of legal malpractice litigation going on around it.
"An Augusta attorney and his former law firm claim they are justified in withholding certain information from a former client who is suing them.
Monday was the deadline for William Fleming, John Fleming and…
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Attorney attendence at trials and conferences is a big source of legal malpractice troubles. Here is a case from Brooklyn:
Diamond v. Diamante, 27030/03
Decided: March 22, 2007
Justice Diana A. Johnson
KINGS COUNTY
Supreme Court
"On the trial adjourn date of November 15, 2006, plaintiff Claudia Diamond and her attorney James D. Reddy failed…
This NJ case was was "dismissed on the ground that plaintiff had voluntarily settled the underlying case without exhausting its appeal and separate active lawsuits, and thus was precluded as a matter of law from attempting to recoup the difference in the malpractice action against defendant. We reverse and remand. " wrote the SUPERIOR COURT…
