The poor deserve an adequate criminal defense as much as anyone else.  While everyone gets an attorney when arrested, even if they cannot afford one, publicly funded legal Aid or 18b attorneys don’t always get sufficient funding to handle large caseloads/  Who suffers? 

Here is a case from Seattle in which an innocent man sat…

Judges handle hundreds of cases a year, many more during a career.  what happens when a judge is removed from the bench for criminal acts?  Can the cases presided over by this particular judge unravel?

In this Pennsylvania legal malpractice case, the judge recused himself during trial when an attorney accused him of showing…

May the defendant attorney collect attorney fees for the successful defense of a legal malpractice case?  One would immediately think not. The "American Rule" is that each side pays for its own attorneys, and the blackletter rule in NY is that absent an agreement or a statute, attorney fees are not collectible.

Here is a case, Lok…

ROBERTO BERAS, Plaintiff-Appellant, -v.- STEPHANIE M. CARVLIN, ROBERT C. GOTTLIEB, MARK STEIN, THE FIRM FRIED, FRANK, HARRIS, SHRIVER, AND JACOBSON, CHARLES A. ROSS, THE FIRM OF BRAFMAN & ROSS, Defendants-Appellees.;No. 07-2514-cv;UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT;2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 19805

is a prime  example of  pro-se litigation in legal malpractice.  It…

Collateral Estoppel and Legal Malpractice have an interesting intertwining existence.  Put briefly, once an attorney is awarded a legal fee [by a court, an arbitrator, or a judicial hearing officer] a subsequent legal malpractice case fails on the basis that a court has already implicitly determined that there can be no legal malpractice, because no…

Here is a pdf version of the Oxman v Herman Sloan Robarge & Sullivan, LLP  case, which is a not unusual matrimonial legal malpractice case, As in many of these cases, plaintiff-wife believes that her attorney has insufficiently investigated the assets of her husband, to the extent that she has been significantly short-changed in…

Legal malpractice is a world within itself.  Beyond the obvious small universe of defendants, all attorneys of course, and the unique rules, the serious questions are almost always how the underlying case was lost, and could it have been won.  While much litigation today centers on meta data and electronic discovery, most of legal malpractice…

Legal Malpractice in Hollywood should come as no surprise.  We’ve commented on the widespread omnipresence of legal malpractice litigation, but had no idea we would be quoting Variety on the subject.  Here is their report on legal malpractice and the "9 to 5" screen, stage and trust saga as well as the cult classic Harold …