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Decisions Allowing Excess Carriers’ Legal Malpractice Claims Against Defense Attorneys Upheld (to some degree)
/ 26.Dec, 2012Last year we noted a Mississippi Court of Appeals decision which permitted an excess insurance carrier to bring a legal malpractice action against its insureds’ . . .
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Immigration Attorneys Arrested (Again)
/ 21.Dec, 2012Immigration is not an area that sees high levels of legal malpractice claims (possibly because badly served clients are generally not in the country anymore), . . .
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Former Delaware County Prosecutor Sentenced
/ 20.Dec, 2012Michael Donohue, a former Delaware County prosecutor, who was found guilty of a hit-and-run on a teenager in November 2011, has been sentenced to 4 . . .
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Legal Malpractice and the Penn State Scandal
/ 18.Dec, 2012In connection with the Jerry Sandusky scandal, former Penn State Vice President, Gary Schultz, has been charged with perjury, failure to report suspected child abuse, . . .
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Pennsylvania Lawyers Fund for Client Security
/ 12.Dec, 2012Every year Pennsylvania lawyers are asked (required) to pay money into the Pennsylvania Lawyers Fund for Client Security. For the most part, lawyers pay this . . .
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Things You Probably Could Guess Would Make You Lose Your License (Late 2012 Edition)
/ 07.Dec, 2012Beating your client with a baseball bat: West Virginia attorney, Joshua Robinson, lost his law license after beating his client David Gump with a baseball . . .
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Extends Corporate Negligence to Nursing Homes
/ 04.Dec, 2012A unanimous Pennsylvania Supreme Court has affirmed the extension of the corporate negligence doctrine beyond hospitals to nursing homes. Nearly a full year after it was . . .
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Doctor Charged In Pill Mill Death
/ 29.Nov, 2012A Montgomery County Doctor has been charged in connection with the death of an individual who received oxycodone pills from him without a legitimate medical . . .
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Legal Malpractice Arising Out of Political Scandal
/ 27.Nov, 2012The Philadelphia Inquirer has published an update on the Bowman v. K & L Gates legal malpractice action. The legal malpractice action arose out of . . .
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Texas Expands Statute of Limitations at Akin Gump’s Expense
/ 20.Nov, 2012Last year Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld won summary judgment in a legal malpractice action arising out of a failed real estate development. The . . .
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