Daily Report Online | Commentary
By Shari L. Klevens and Alanna Clair | November 9, 2020
Although the lawyer's representation may start in the middle of a lawsuit or other client-driven task, it is helpful to remember that it is still a new representation for the replacement lawyer's law firm.
By Charles Toutant | November 6, 2020
The ruling illustrates a potential pitfall facing a startup company that tries to recover lost profits in litigation. The new-business rule says that "prospective profits of a new business are considered too remote and speculative to meet the legal standard of reasonable certainty."
By Angela Morris | November 6, 2020
Claiming they met in coffee shops to discuss private details of a sexual assault case, a client has sued an Amarillo solo practitioner in a new legal-malpractice case.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Jason Grant | November 5, 2020
"The determination of when [the former client] reasonably should have been aware of the cause of her [alleged malpractice] injury should have been deferred to the finder of fact," not decided summarily by the trial court, wrote the Pennsylvania Superior Court on Delaware County in a decision allowed the former client's suit to proceed.
By Dan Roe | November 4, 2020
A hacker impersonating both an attorney at a Pompano Beach law firm and a Fort Lauderdale closing agent convinced a man to wire $120,000 to the law firm's bank account, according to a new suit.
By Jason Grant | October 29, 2020
"The jury heard significant evidence about the standard of care an attorney owes to a client," said the Appellate Division, First Department court.
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | October 27, 2020
Jason Gibson, who won a $53.8 million verdict in the underlying wrongful death suit that was later appealed, says the allegations are "fabricated."
By Charles Toutant | October 27, 2020
The appeals court said the trial judge correctly ruled that the defense expert could testify despite a lack of directly comparable work experience and testimony that was not tethered to case law or a legal treatise.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Suzette Parmley | October 21, 2020
"What I am asking for is a sea change. … But what I am asking would actually lessen the amount of [malpractice] cases," attorney Matthew Weisberg told the justices. "An attorney's efforts may prevent the malpractice or mitigate the malpractice."
By Lidia Dinkova | October 21, 2020
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman agreed with Bilzin Sumberg's argument that the legal malpractice suit was filed beyond the statute of limitations expiration.
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