Here is a well written and educational decision on a Morgan Lewis motion for summary judgment for legal fees based upon "account stated." 

It’s not often that the law firm loses this motion.  Read part of Justice Richter’s decision:

In this action, plaintiff-law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP ("Morgan Lewis") alleges that its former…

Upstate law firm Upton, Cohen & Slamowitz are still in a EDNY debt collection case brought by an irate consumer.  The consumer’s claim is that the law firm did not follow the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) obligation to review the case before sending a dunning letter, and that it have meaningful attorney involvement,.…

In NC as in New York, plaintiff must provide a ceritificate of merit for a medical malpractice case. In NC, the question of whether a legal malpractice plaintiff who is suing over a lost medical malpractice case must provide yet another certification when the legal malpractice case is brought was open. 

Plaintiff won in the…

We are located in Manhattan.  In New York State, the vast majority of courts are small:  Villange and Town courts.  They range over the 62 counties, even in the Second Department.  Here is a chilling story about how justice goes on in these small courts.  When finances are so badly handled, can legal malpractice be…

Here is the re-print from the NYLJ/LawCom of Howard Bashman’s article, to which we alluded in an earlier blog:

"Some judges are crooked. Others are idiots. And some ignore or distort the facts and applicable law to reach results more to their liking than the facts and law, honestly portrayed, would allow.

When appealing from…

Here is a scholarly article of law review quality on Attorney-Client Privilege and implied waiver, from Lawrence M. Steckman of Lester, Schwab,Katz & Dwyer.  Here is the re-printed article.

Here is a blog blurb from Eric Turkowitz and his New York Personal Injury Blog.

"Howard Bashman (How Appealing) comments today in a nice article at Law.com (Decorum on Appeal: When Judges Are Under Attack) on the recent Utah Supreme Court decision to sanction a law professor $17,000 for the disrespect he showed to the…

This took several readings but the scholarly article seems to say that there have been changes in Kentucky tax law, and that LLCs and other statutory entities may need to be changed, and that attorneys who advised clients to use these entities now need to tell the former clients that changes have to be made. …