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New stories and case digests and some columns focused on key court decisions and issues, as well as news stories on prominent lawyers in trouble, to articles and columns offering advice.
By Everett Catts | October 17, 2023
"It is shameful for an attorney to abuse the trust placed in him by his clients, but that is exactly what Dickason did," U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan said in a news release. "He misappropriated millions of dollars belonging to his clients for his personal benefit with no regard for how his clients would be affected."
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By Alex Anteau | October 16, 2023
"This is an important issue," said Richard Robbins of Robbins Alloy Belinfante Littlefield, an attorney who specializes in legal malpractice. "When you have firms like Morgan & Morgan, with a heavy volume of cases, putting arbitration provisions in their agreements, attorneys want to know how that will play out in real life."
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By Charles Toutant | October 11, 2023
The suit brings claims under federal and New Jersey trade secret laws, as well as claims for misappropriation of confidential information, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, civil conspiracy and respondeat superior.
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By Allison Dunn | October 11, 2023
A federal judge in Massachusetts partially granted summary judgment to a plaintiff who alleged that her attorneys overbilled her after successfully representing her in an underlying $10 million premises liability action.
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By Ellen C. Brotman | October 11, 2023
Why are conflicts so important in the regulation of attorneys? Because we owe our clients our undivided loyalty in pursuing their goals. Things can get messy fast when either the interests of former clients, or our own personal or professional interests are competing for that loyalty.
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By Mason Lawlor | October 6, 2023
This case was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
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By Allison Dunn | October 4, 2023
"The parties appear to agree that the statute of limitations is two years and began to run on July 30, 2020. Therefore, ordinarily, the statute of limitations would expire on July 30, 2022," U.S. District Senior Judge David A. Faber wrote. "Defendant argues that the complaint needed to be filed on July 30, 2022, even though it was a Saturday. Plaintiff argues that he had until August 1, 2022. Plaintiff is correct."
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By Riley Brennan | September 28, 2023
A split West Virginia Supreme Court has affirmed a circuit court's order dismissing a legal-malpractice complaint in which a client alleged his lawyer failed to get the blood test results of a DUI stop admitted into evidence.
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By Alex Anteau | September 27, 2023
"In more than 15 years of criminal defense practice across four states, I have never encountered this kind of attempt by a prosecutor to communicate with a represented person or to undermine the attorney-client relationship," defense counsel said.
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By Amanda O'Brien | September 27, 2023
The appeals court found that online pharmacy Philidor didn't demonstrate the law firm violated the terms of a contract by pushing work to co-counsel at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
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