Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Robert Storace | November 19, 2020
"I was a criminal defense attorney, and the past few years of that practice was spent chasing down dollars," said Zils Gagne. "I was constantly after clients to pay their bills."
By Angela Morris | November 19, 2020
A Houston lawyer faces a legal-malpractice suit by clients who alleged he failed to respond to a motion to dismiss, and missed a status conference hearing. He had argued his wife had died and he fell into a depressive episode.
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.
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