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Deadlines the Harsh Reality of Legal Malpractice
/ 28.Jan, 2013As we have previously written, calendaring issues are the number one cause of legal malpractice actions, and good calendaring habits are the single most effective malpractice . . .
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Another Ponzi Scheme, Another Allegation Against Lawyers
/ 15.Jan, 2013As we have previously written, multiple times, there are few, if any, Ponzi schemes which do not involve an attorney at some level or another. . . .
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Legal Malpractice Based on Client Confidentiality
/ 10.Jan, 2013McDermott, Will & Emery is facing a legal malpractice action alleging a formal partner passed on to his family members confidential information related to a . . .
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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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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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What a Mess!
/ 07.Aug, 2012The Chicago law firm of Gardiner Koch Weisberg & Wrona, is suing their former clients Ken and Wendy Brown for breach of contract, fraud, breach . . .
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Where to begin. . .
/ 17.May, 2012The website Overstock.com has been engaged in battle with a number of Wall Street entities. Among the most contentious of these battles has been Overstock.com . . .
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Case Within a Case in Detail
/ 11.May, 2012Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court of New Jersey’s summary judgment in Minkin v. Gibbons P.C., . . .
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Ethics Opinion on Cloud Computing
/ 09.May, 2012The issue of cloud computing, the storing and sharing of data on/with remote servers, has been a hot topic in attorney ethics circles recently. The . . .
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