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Daily Report Online

Arbitrator Awards $640K in Legal Malpractice Case Against Metro Atlanta Firm, Ex-Partner

The arbitration award said a former partner at what is now Stout Kaiser failed to inform his client about a $1 million-plus default judgment and admitted to "hiding things from my client and other clients."
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

What is your New Year's resolution as an attorney who has practiced for many years?
11 minute read

Daily Report Online

Apply Personal New Year's Resolutions to Your Legal Practice

Screening potential new client representations, like monitoring one's diet, is an important prevention tool to avoid legal malpractice claims.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Biggest Pitfall of 2020: Here's What Drove Malpractice Suits Against Texas Lawyers

A handful of Texas attorneys faced legal-malpractice litigation in 2020 because they missed deadlines to file court documents or appear in court.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

In Sills Cummis Case, Court Sets Expectations for Retainer Agreement Arbitration Clauses

Justice Barry Albin said "for an arbitration provision in a retainer agreement to be enforceable, an attorney must generally explain to a client the benefits and disadvantages of arbitrating a prospective dispute between the attorney and client."
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Mandatory Training for Lawyers Overseeing IOLTA Accounts Is Long Overdue

Among an attorney's most important duties is the obligation to safeguard all client and third-party property held in trust. It is an obligation that lawyers learn about in law school, and hear about throughout their careers.
10 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Attorneys on Wrong Side of Law: Connecticut Lawyers Disciplined in 2020

Here's a look at some of the Connecticut attorneys who faced ethics and other charges in the past 12 months.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Texas or Jersey? Court Seeks Help With Choice-of-Law Question in Pelvic Mesh Fee Suit

The question posed appears novel—whether New Jersey public policy compels application of New Jersey's contingency-fee rules to all cases filed in its courts. But the plaintiffs were not New Jersey residents, the case was not litigated in New Jersey, and the case was ultimately settled in Texas—echoing the decentralized nature that is common in multidistrict litigation cases.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility

I was consulted with a potential client about retaining me. I met briefly with the client and discussed the case. Subsequently, the client chose to hire someone else. I have now been subpoenaed as a witness as to what the client told me. Is this within the attorney-client privilege?
9 minute read

Law.com

'Terror of an Invisible Virus': COVID-19 Brought With It a Whole New Set of Legal Malpractice Risks

With the closure of courts and law offices across the U.S. and the attendant rise in remote work—not to mention a dip in demand for many lawyers—came a host of new risks for mistakes, malfeasance and just plain poor decision-making, all of which helped lay fertile ground for legal malpractice claims. Here's a look back at what experts had to say about the heightened dangers for lawyers during this strange, but not altogether unprecedented, year.
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