Here is a story which about a legal malpracice suit in Detroit. Plaintiffs say that one law firm argued in Canada to build a bridge, and in the US to stop the bridge. The article.
"A two-timing law firm has jeopardized the Ambassador Bridge owner’s $500 million plan to build a second span between Detroit…
Will there be an estate of Anna Nicole Smith Legal Malpractice Case. This particular commentator thinks so. Johanna Grossman of Findlaw thinks so in this article.
"There were at least two pending lawsuits against her at the time of her death, which will likely now be waged against her estate. Anna Nicole had spent recent…
Nextel workes bring legal malpractice action against Leeds Morelli & Brown.
"A group of former Nextel employees from New Jersey alleges that their former lawyers struck a sweetheart deal with the wireless communications giant to cap a settlement of their discrimination claims.
The five plaintiffs — all former employees at Nextel’s Rutherford office — are…
One rarely finds an article about the business side of law firms, and almost never about legal malpractice. We reported this bankruptcy and legal malpractice problem for Coudert Brothers a while back. Today Ellen Rosen of the New York Times reports:
"At one time, the breakup of a big, prestigious law firm was rare. But…
This case from Kings county is puzzling because the court found it was permitted to treat a 3211[a][7] motion as a 3212 Motion for Summary Judgment, without notice to the parties, based upon use of extrinsic materials. Read the decision:
"Defendants, Lindenbaum & Young and Alan Young, Esq. (the Young defendants), in this legal malpractice…
We cover attorney fee disputes in and out of legal malpractice. This outcome [temporary] is quite unusual. Jail is rarely a contemplated outcome in an attorney fee dispute. The details.
"A murder defendant’s attorneys wrangling over fee cuts from the agency that governs public defenders has led them to be held in contempt, ordered…
Here is a PLI web seminar on how to pick the right legal malpractice insurance. The Seminar is a year or so old, but the faculty is stellar. Take a look.
Divorce and legal malpractice often intertwine. Issues that regularly come up are insufficient discovery of the husband’s business or accounts, failure to ensure correct tax treatment of the marital estate. inequitable distribution based upon ill-considered stipulations, and faiures to present experts. One site writing about divorce and litigation is Daniel Clement’s New York Divorce…
This field never sees publicity or bikini photos. Right now, there is a confluence of presidential politics, scandal, presidential gambling sites, bikini photos, Hillary Clinton and legal malpractice. Here is a second day of gossip.
"Call it a well orchestrated smear campaign or a case with its own merit, we’ll call it an important political betting…
Legal Malpractice is family to its cousin, Medical Malpractice. In either situation, a person has put faith in a professional, asking that a threatening problem be solved. It matters little to the client/patient whether the situation is an operation or a trial. in either, the problem is overwhelming and threatening. What happens when something goes…
