Blogs, Web sites, lawyer communications – all are under regulation and potential greater regulation by NYS.  Here is an article about the rules and a case attacking them. 

"A high-volume, heavy-advertising personal injury law firm and a Washington, D.C., advocacy group are apparently the first to challenge the new attorney advertising restrictions that took effect…

From the blog Judicial Reports, which makes for very amusing reading.  It reports all appellate reversals of New York cases.  Here is one in legal malpractice:

"LEGAL MALPRACTICE: Justice Yvonne Lewis granted summary judgment for Ella Jampolskaya in a legal malpractice suit against Victor Gomelsky and his solo law practice firm. The Appellate Division found…

It’s rather shocking to read a legal malpractice action which arises after the U.S. Navy bombs a U.S. citizen, and at work, no less.  In any event, this legal malpractice case  comes about after the U.S. Navy bombed plaintiff, in error!

"Where (1) an employee of the plaintiff company was injured when a U.S. Navy…

Here is a newspaper article about a case we reported about a week ago.  The story is of a rape victim who lost several rounds of litigation until last week.

Five years and six days ago, a mild-mannered widow with medical problems was raped in a storage unit at Casa Escondida, an Escondido apartment complex…

Law Com reports on this attorney in Connecticut:   "A veteran New Haven, Conn., lawyer has been suspended from the practice of law for six months for his role in a real estate transaction that may be a blatant case of mortgage fraud. In his special defense against interim suspension, Olmer noted that, in his 53…

The Madison-St. Claire Record prints more aritlcles about law and legal malpractice than almost any publication, including Law.Com  Here is an article about the inner workings of the Class Action litigation world.

"When the Lakin Law Firm filed its newest class action complaint in Madison County Circuit Court Jan. 22, long time co-counsel Paul Weiss…

e-Discovery.  Its all over the news, and if you look at any glossy legal magazine, it’s in all the ads.  Does one use a professional e-Discovery company to mine opponent’s computers?  Will the big firms form in-house e-Discovery units?  What document retention policy to use?  Here is an article about the legal malpractice aspect of…

A  common law retaining lien, known also as a "general possessory lien" entitles the outgoing attorney to "retain all papers, securities, or money belonging to the client" that came into the attorney’s possession in the course of representation, as security for payment of attorney’s fees"

A retaining lien arises from Judiciary Law § 475 and…