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Tips for Insurance Applications

Applying for professional malpractice insurance is sometimes considered a chore. Too many law firms and attorneys breeze through insurance applications, without carefully considering their responses to each question and the implications. However, failing to properly answer questions can create serious risks for law firms.
12 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

When Attorney Fees Can Be Awarded in Legal Mal Actions Brought By Non-Clients

The circumstances in which an award of attorney fees in favor of a non-client in legal malpractice cases are exceedingly rare.
14 minute read

Daily Report Online

Taylor English Sued for Legal Malpractice Over Botched Contract

Atlanta's Taylor English Duma and one of its partners are facing a legal-malpractice action claiming damages of nearly $1 million.
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Recent Opinions Reinforce Standards on Legal Malpractice Cases

Pennsylvania legal malpractice law is continually evolving, but some parts of the law are well fixed and case law continually serves to affirm it. Some recent cases from our state appellate courts ­reinforce some of the most basic black ­letter elements of legal malpractice law.
12 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Attorney Who 'Stole Often and Much' Disbarred 20 Years

The disbarment marks the second time Craig Larsen, formerly of Craig Larsen Law Offices, has been disciplined for embezzling funds from a client.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

It's Important to Carefully Read MDJ rule changes

I am a lawyer and also a district justice. Also, as a lawyer, I have a small law firm in the county where I am a district justice. What can I do in my firm as an attorney?
25 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Insurer: Legal Mal Policy Void Because Firm Hid Ties to Clients

A Pittsburgh law firm's alleged failure to disclose its partners' financial interest in two clients disqualified it from legal malpractice coverage, an insurer has argued in federal court.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Are Advance Waivers Enforceable? Maybe

Increasingly, law firms are seeking waivers of possible future conflicts of interest with their clients when they undertake a representation, i.e., the client agrees to waive conflicts its attorneys may encounter in the future.
22 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Professional Malpractice

By | January 16, 2017
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

It's Difficult for Hard-Working Superior Court Judges to Issue In-Depth Opinions

I saw a proposed rule change allowing citation to unreported decisions by the Superior Court. It appears far too many decisions of the Superior Court are memorandum and not reported, why is that?
20 minute read

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