Forget about the Kentucky statute of limitations issue [although the discovery v. mistake date which starts the statute running is important here in NY]. Focus on the bad luck and the series of mistakes which take place in this poor plaintiff’s case discussed in the Kentucky Court Report:
"Lane appeals TC’s grant of summary judgment to…
Legal malpractice sometimes seems to be the language franca in law news. It can show up in any setting. Here is a most unusual story from Law.com [link unavailable]:
"A legal malpractice lawsuit against Baker, Donelson, Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz stemming from a case involving a 6-ton marble sculpture of Jesus Christ’s face may…
Huber v. Taylor is the case. Here in this extensive report from Litigation and Trial Blog is the full story of a legal malpractice/disgorgement case and its appeals.
"The prior opinion, Huber v. Taylor, 469 F.3d 67 (3d Cir. 2006), was one of the more important recent opinions for "lawyer’s lawyers" in the Third Circuit.
One of the more interesting aspects of legal malpractice litigation is the ferocity with which defendant attorneys will employ in their defense…especially when contrasted with the particulars of plaintiff’s complaint…usually that the attorneys were way below lackluster when they were prosecuting the underlying case.
Here is an example from the MassTortDefense blog.
"A legal malpractice case…
It’s all over the law news today, and here is NY Lawyer’s report on the Kirkland Ellis patent legal malpractice case in Illinois:
"In an Illinois state court filing last week, Kirkland & Ellis is being sued for legal malpractice by a former client that blames the law firm for the loss of a patent case…
The outcome in this case is not unique; many legal malpractice cases are dismissed prior to trial, often on the basis that there is no "proximate cause" or "there is documentary evidence that plaintiff cannot prove the underlying case." Terrance Wray, appellant, v Mallilo & Grossman, etc., respondent.SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, SECOND…
One of the more fascinating aspects of legal malpractice is the large catchment area. That jargon, from psychology simply means that almost everyone uses attorneys, whether the largest CEO, or a hip hop magi zine employee who alleges sexual harassment.
Here, two employees of The Source were fired, and they sued. Their attorneys Thompson Wigdor &…
New York Lawyer reports that a legal malpractice case in Philadelphia may continue as is a case in New Jersey.
"Just a few weeks after a malpractice claim against Nixon Peabody was allowed to go forward in New Jersey, a Philadelphia judge has allowed to continue a separate, but similar, malpractice action against the firm…
In Legal Malpractice cases, the subtext is consistently one of betrayal, or at best a shortcoming. Potential clients report that their attorney misled them, or abandoned them, or simply did not do the work. These claims are often true, to a shocking and heartrending degree.
Here, in this story, not only is there the…
As an added reason why one should never, never, never dip toes in another state’s legal proceedings, see this story on the difference between statute of limitations in an oral versus written contract in legal malpractice.
"A legal malpractice claim was time-barred because it was subject to a shorter statute of limitations for actions based…
