Brooks v. Lemieux, 2017 WL 1056194 (Me. 2017) -
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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
Oakland Police & Fire Ret. Sys. v. Mayer Brown, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 11522, ___ F.3d ___ (7th Cir. 2017) -
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Plaintiffs filed a putative class action against the defendant, a law firm that represented a...more
Moonlight Enterprise, LLC v. Mroz, 2017 WL 1237947 (Va. March 30, 2017) -
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The Virginia Supreme Court held that the continuous representation rule does not apply to an attorney who ceases to perform legal...more
Manveen Saluja, M.D. v. Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn, LLP, 2017 WL 1033751 (Mich. 2017) -
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Summary judgment in favor of defendants was affirmed based on plaintiff's failure to establish that but...more
Solar Dynamics, Inc. v. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, P.C., 2017 WL 519314 (Fla. 2017) -
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A Florida appellate court held that the trial court lacked jurisdiction over a legal malpractice action that...more
West Bend Mutual Ins. Co. v. Schumacher, ___ F.3d ___, 2016 WL 7395708 (7th Cir. 2016) -
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Plaintiff, a workers' compensation insurer, filed a legal malpractice action against former defense counsel,...more
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
Verdrager v. Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C., 474 Mass. 382 (2016) -
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The Massachusetts Supreme Court held that it is "protected activity" (i.e., conduct that an employee may engage...more
Tower Homes, LLC v. Heaton, ___ P.3d ___, 2016 WL 4273578 (Nev. 2016) -
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The Supreme Court of Nevada held that a bankruptcy trustee's stipulation and court's order permitting creditors to pursue the...more
Terra Foundation for American Art, et al. v. DLA Piper LLP (US), 2016 IL App (1st) 153285 -
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Plaintiffs filed a legal malpractice action against defendant law firm that plaintiffs had retained in...more
Stock v. Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, __ N.Y.S.3d __, 2016 WL 3556655 (2016)
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A New York appellate court reversed the trial court's decision to compel disclosure of communications between...more
Prospect Development, LLC, et al v. Donald Kreger and Schiff Hardin, 2016 IL App (1st) 150433 -
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Plaintiff sued a lawyer and his law firm for alleged legal malpractice arising out of the collapse of a...more
7/6/2016
/ Attorney Malpractice ,
Bad Faith ,
Breach of Contract ,
Cause of Action Accrual ,
Equitable Estoppel ,
Equitable Tolling ,
Fraudulent Concealment ,
Loans ,
Redevelopment ,
Statute of Repose ,
Unclean Hands
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The "common interest doctrine" generally protects attorney-client communications, even if such communications are disclosed to a third party, as long as the third party shares a common legal interest with...more
6/24/2016
/ Appeals ,
Asset Purchaser ,
Attorney-Client Privilege ,
Bank of America ,
Commercial Leases ,
Common-Interest Privilege ,
Confidential Communications ,
Countrywide ,
Disclosure ,
Discovery ,
Fraud ,
Indemnification ,
Mergers ,
RMBS ,
Third-Party
Naughton v. Pfaff, 2016 IL.App (2nd) 150360 -
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A referring attorney sought to recover under an oral fee-sharing agreement with another attorney, alleging that their agreement constituted a joint...more
Highland Capital Management, LP v. Looper Reed & McGraw, P.C., 2016 WL 164528 (Tex. App. Jan. 14, 2016)
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The Texas Court of Appeals held that the doctrine of attorney immunity barred an employer's...more
Plaintiff sued a co-defendant's lawyer for allegedly emailing her and obtaining privileged information to be used to defend against plaintiff's alleged claims. The appellate court affirmed the dismissal of plaintiff's claims...more
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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
In Palmer v. Superior Court California's Second District Court of Appeal upheld the in-house counsel privilege for communications concerning a dispute with a current client and, in doing so, declined to adopt the "fiduciary...more