The familiar triumverate of client, insurance company and independent defense attorney is a familiar model.  Certainly, there are cracks in the facade.  The attorney has dual roles, and a divided loyalty…  In Texas, a recent ruling permits the insurance company to use in-house attorneys to defend insureds. 

Law and Insurance Blog reports: "Unauthorized Practice of…

Here is a subscription article from Law.com  on recoverable legal fees in NJ legal malpractice litigation:

"A six-year-long legal malpractice epic shows why the N.J. State Bar Association wants to abolish the state’s unique fee-shifting benefits. A jury found that a firm that had sued its client for an unpaid fee, and was countersued, had…

We’ve been following this case.  Bank is scammed by person running a structured settlement company, and clients’ structured settlement funds are lost.  Bank sues the attorney who recommended the structure guy, and on Friday, a jury awarded the bank $ 3.7 million in damages.

Here is the story of the verdict in Magna v. Coburn…

This article from the Daily Report tells us more about a new trend, legal malpractice cases arising and related to bankrupcy filings:

"A federal judge has approved a settlement—apparently totaling $4.25 million—of a lawsuit against Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker.

The suit had alleged that some of the firm’s Los Angeles lawyers helped Mobile Billboards…

In this Fourth Department case  Kumar v, American Transit Co, the Appellate Division has reversed and sent a case of legal malpractice back for trial.  It is an interesting application of equitable subrogation.  Plaintiff is an auto insurer who was involved in bad faith litigation.  Briefly, driver agrees to pay his policy…

Surcharged as an executor, this attorney has an ongoing legal malpractice case against several sets of his own attorneys.  In Alaimo v. Mongelli, we see several varieties of legal malpractice allegations.  One of them is in contract for failure to undertake an appeal, which was paid for, and one is for straight negligence.  The NYLJ…

This report from the Wall Street Journal Law Blog suggests that JP Morgan may have had to raise its buying price from $ 2 to $10 because of legal malpractice.  What was the legal malpractice?  A sentence inadvertently left in the agreement, which required JP Morgan to guarantee certain trades. 

Whether this is true or…

Clients often come to speak with a legal malpractice attorney, and concentrate on the mistakes made by their attorney.  While there can be many mistakes, not all of them lead to a successful case.  Here is an example of many mistakes in a NJ case in which, at the end, there may be no provable…