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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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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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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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Client Claims Lawyers Got Him Not Only $104 Million in Pocket, But Also 40 Months in Prison
/ 16.Nov, 2012In September, Bradley Birkenfeld received the largest whistle-blower award ever paid by the IRS, $104 million. however, prior to receiving the award, Mr. Birkenfeld spent . . .
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Is it a Patent Case or a Legal Malpractice Action?
/ 08.Oct, 2012The Supreme Court of the Untied States has granted certiorari to a Supreme Court of Texas case, Minton v. Gunn which addresses the federal court . . .
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Law Firm Sued for Alleged Bad Advice about Bankruptcy Filing
/ 19.Sep, 2012The New Jersey firm of Porzio, Bromberg & Newman has been sued for legal malpractice to the tune of $4.4 million for having allegedly improperly . . .
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$2 Million Verdict in "Toothless Cootie" Case
/ 07.Sep, 2012We have said it before, do not put into writing anything you do not want to see blown up and used against you as an . . .
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Real Estate is the Top Area of Practice for Legal Malpractice Claims
/ 06.Sep, 2012According to the ABA, between 2008 and 2011, there were more legal malpractice claims arising out of real estate transactions than any other area of . . .
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