Another blog blurb from Scottsdale:
"Attorneys know that deadlines matter, but in this age of electronic filing and 24-hour drop boxes it was just a matter of time before a court would have to address a filing that was, say, a mere six minutes late. That is what the United States Court of Appeals for…
Legal malpractice requires legal representation, while breach of fiduciary duty can be had by a non-attorney as the Scottsdale Personal Injury Lawyer tell us.
"Many people do not understand the difference between legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty.
Legal malpractice arises when an attorney owes someone a duty of care and, by an act…
Here is a divorce legal malpractice case from the Divorce Law Journal which illustrates the "privity" question.
"Issue and Holding:
Whether an attorney owed any duty to an opposing party in a divorce case. The Court held no, the attorney owed no duty under the facts of this case.
Facts:
Baker filed for divorce from…
Appellate Law & Practice of California reports this legal malpractice case:
"CA1: Legal malpractice claims by 3d-party based on defrauded ponzi scheme fail
International Strategies v. Greenberg Traurig, 06-1790. This case involves a lot of people and firms that I really don’t want to smear. Not because I don’t like smearing, but because I…
"Four years of lawsuits and federal investigations had worn down the leaders of Jenkens & Gilchrist. Many of their biggest earners were leaving the law firm and taking their prized clients with them. And it had become hard to attract talent, with no end in sight for the firm’s problems.
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Anthony Lin in the NYLJ reports:
"Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have entered into a nonprosecution agreement with Dallas law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist over its past involvement in illegal tax shelters, a scandal that has already fatally crippled the once-thriving firm.
Between 1998 and 2003, the firm’s Chicago-based tax shelter practice provided hundreds of legal…
Hinshaw reports that there is no insurance coverage for this attorney-attorney law suit over referral fees. "The Louisiana Supreme Court held that a lawyer’s claims made policy did not require the insurer to defend an insured lawyer who was sued by another lawyer for allegedly fraudulently inducing him to accept a client whose claim was
Here is a report of the case in which Reed Smith is accused of conflict of interest and legal malpractice.
"In Axcan Scandipharm v. Reed Smith, Axcan, a pharmaceutical company, claimed that the firm engaged in an impermissible conflict that led to disclosure of confidential information by the firm to a second client.
According to…
Man wrongfully convicted of murder, now exonorated and released. He brings a suit against all, including his attorney. An article on the case.
Long a question in legal fee cases is whether the cost of electronic legal research [monthly, or per case] is part of the general overhead of a lawfirm, or a cost which may be awarded to the successful attorney?
Here is a case: Insinga v. Cooperative Centrale Raiffeisen Boerenleenbank B.A., 03 Civ. 7775
Decided: March…
