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South Carolina Supreme Court Holds that Insurer can sue Defense Attorney Retained to Represent its Insured

Sentry Select Insurance Company v. Maybank Law Firm, LLC, et al., (May 30, 2018) Brief Summary - The South Carolina Supreme Court, in response to questions from the District Court, ruled that an insurance company may...more

Legal Malpractice Case Dismissed for Lack of Personal Jurisdiction under Illinois Long Arm Statute

Brook, as Trustee of the David North II Trust, successor to the assets of Cortina Financial, Inc. v. McCormley, et al., No. 16-4255 (7th Cir. 2017) Brief Summary - The Seventh Circuit affirmed the district court's...more

Attorney’s Expert’s Affidavit on Causation Sufficiently Detailed to Withstand Summary Judgment

Starwood Management, LLC by and through Norma Gonzalez v. Don Swaim and Rose Walker, LLP, Texas Supreme Court Number 16-0431 (September 29, 2017) - Brief Summary - The Texas Supreme Court overturned the trial court and...more

Maine Court Holds That Expert Testimony is Required to Prove Causation in Legal Malpractice Action

Brooks v. Lemieux, 2017 WL 1056194 (Me. 2017) - Brief Summary - The Maine Supreme Judicial Court recently held that expert testimony based on supporting facts in the record was required to prove causation between an...more

Continuous Representation Rule Does Not Apply Merely Because Attorney Remains Counsel of Record

Moonlight Enterprise, LLC v. Mroz, 2017 WL 1237947 (Va. March 30, 2017) - Brief Summary - The Virginia Supreme Court held that the continuous representation rule does not apply to an attorney who ceases to perform legal...more

State Court Lacks Jurisdiction Over Legal Malpractice Claim That Required Court To Resolve Federal Issues Relating To Scope,...

Solar Dynamics, Inc. v. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, P.C., 2017 WL 519314 (Fla. 2017) - Brief Summary - A Florida appellate court held that the trial court lacked jurisdiction over a legal malpractice action that...more

Seventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Malpractice Claim Based on Plaintiff's Failure to Plead "But For" Causation

West Bend Mutual Ins. Co. v. Schumacher, ___ F.3d ___, 2016 WL 7395708 (7th Cir. 2016) - Brief Summary - Plaintiff, a workers' compensation insurer, filed a legal malpractice action against former defense counsel,...more

Trial Court's Error In Underlying Case Was Superseding Cause Of Plaintiffs' Claimed Damages

Whether the trial court erred in the underlying litigation is always an important part of the proximate (or "but for") causation analysis. Stanfield v. Neubaum, 2016 WL 3536865 (Tex. June 24, 2016) is yet another case that...more

Supreme Court of Nevada Holds That Legal Malpractice Claim Was Impermissibly Assigned

Tower Homes, LLC v. Heaton, ___ P.3d ___, 2016 WL 4273578 (Nev. 2016) - Brief Summary - The Supreme Court of Nevada held that a bankruptcy trustee's stipulation and court's order permitting creditors to pursue the...more

Illinois Court Holds That $6.5 Million Malpractice Claim Barred By Statute of Repose

Terra Foundation for American Art, et al. v. DLA Piper LLP (US), 2016 IL App (1st) 153285 - Brief Summary - Plaintiffs filed a legal malpractice action against defendant law firm that plaintiffs had retained in...more

Illinois Appellate Court Holds That Legal Malpractice Claim Was Barred by Six-Year Statute of Repose, and Collateral Estoppel...

Prospect Development, LLC, et al v. Donald Kreger and Schiff Hardin, 2016 IL App (1st) 150433 - Brief Summary - Plaintiff sued a lawyer and his law firm for alleged legal malpractice arising out of the collapse of a...more

Illinois Claim for Aiding and Abetting Client's Breach of Fiduciary Duty Time-Barred

Brief Summary - The plaintiff, a shareholder of limited liability company (LLC), filed an action against a law firm and one of its lawyers, alleging they aided and abetted other shareholders in breaching their fiduciary...more

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