Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 317: Spotlight on Torts (Part 2 – Intentional Torts)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 316: Spotlight on Torts (Part 1 – Negligence)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 315: Listen and Learn -- The Breach Element of a Negligence Claim (Torts)
Podcast - Ohio State Senator Has a Bone to Pick with Court Ruling on Boneless Wings
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 247: Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Factual Causation
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 382: Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Proximate Cause
Hinshaw Insurance Law TV – Cybersecurity Part Two: The Rise in Cyber Negligence Cases
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 347: Listen and Learn -- Assumption of Risk (Torts)
Cyberside Chats - Zero Trust and Cyber Negligence: A conversation with Dr. Zero Trust Chase Cunningham
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 319: Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Duties of Landlords, Owners, and Possessors of Land
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 318: Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Duties of Professionals and Children
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 149: Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Duties of Landlords, Owners, and Possessors of Land
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 147: Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Duties of Professionals and Children
The Risk of Personal Injury Claims from COVID-19 and What to Do About It
The Year Ahead: Litigation Hot Spots at a Glance
COVID-19 in the Workplace - PPP Update, COVID Plans from the Biden Transition Team, Higher Education Relief Package Provision, COVID WARN Act Developments
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 107: Listen and Learn -- Assumption of Risk (Torts)
Navigating the New Normal: Risk Management and Legal Considerations for Real Estate Companies
Personal Jurisdiction Part 2: The Ford Cases [More With McGlinchey Ep. 8]
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 257: Listen and Learn -- The "Reasonable Person" Standard
Key Points: While legal malpractice actions can be brought as a negligence or contract claim, the gist of the action doctrine serves to limit those instances....more
Wire transfer fraud is on the rise, and attorneys are increasingly becoming prime targets for cybercriminals. With billions lost annually to fraudulent transactions, legal professionals who fail to implement robust...more
The New Jersey Superior Court, Law Division, in Bergen County, granted a motion for summary judgment in a legal malpractice case against a New Jersey attorney defended by Goldberg Segalla. Goldberg Segalla’s client was the...more
An attorney cannot be liable for failing act outside the scope of the retainer agreement. Kohler v. Polsky, 219 AD3d 821, 822 (2d Dept 2023) - The plaintiff had retained the defendant-attorney for representation in a workers’...more
Assume the deceased settlor of a trust had intended that his niece be included in the beneficiary class, but his estate-planning attorney had negligently made no provision for her in the governing instrument. After settlor’s...more
As the calendar turns to 2025, a look back at the Pennsylvania appellate dockets shows a number of impactful legal malpractice decisions, including one that was recently reargued en banc with significant ramifications for law...more
Chamblee Ryan, P.C. v. JBS Carrier, Inc., No. 12-23-00125-CV (Tex. App. — Tyler June 12, 2024) - Brief Summary - Plaintiff, JBS Carriers, Inc. (“JBS”), sued Chamblee Ryan, P.C. (the “defendant”) for legal malpractice related...more
Forshee v. Moulton, 2024 Tex. App. LEXIS 2520 (Houston [14th Dist.] April 11, 2024) - Brief Summary - The Texas Court of Appeals held that when a plaintiff's claim against her former attorney properly is grounded in...more
Iavor Stoyanov v. Himont Law Group, Ltd., et al., 2024 IL App (1st) 221434-U (April 15, 2024) - Brief Summary - The First District Appellate Court in Illinois held that the trial court (Judge Patrick J. Sherlock) was correct...more
Flanigan v. Herman., 2024 Wash. App. LEXIS 44 (Wash. Ct. App. Jan. 11, 2024) - Brief Summary - The Washington Court of Appeals held that when the facts are undisputed, proximate cause is an issue of law to be decided by the...more
The Superior Court recently ruled that a plaintiff in a legal malpractice action seeking recovery for damages resulting from his loss of corporate stock may introduce at trial expert testimony concerning the valuation of that...more
Brief Summary - The Georgia Court of Appeals held that the continuous representation rule does not apply to legal malpractice actions. Thus, plaintiff's claims against his attorneys based on their alleged negligence in...more
Midwest Sanitary Service, Inc., et al. v. Sandberg, Phoenix & Von Gontard, P.C. et al., 2022 IL 127327 (Sept. 22, 2022) Brief Summary - The Illinois Supreme Court held that defendants' former client can seek to recover...more
On April 26, 2022 the Supreme Court of New Jersey heard arguments about whether New Jersey should retain the judicially created “new business rule”. Since 1936 the rule has held that in the context of calculating damages...more
Brief Summary - The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, applying Pennsylvania law, affirmed the summary judgment that the district court granted in defendants' favor on plaintiff's alleged legal...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, applying North Dakota law, has held that a lawyers professional liability policy did not provide coverage for a legal malpractice lawsuit where the insured knew or...more
On October 7, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed summary judgment in favor of defendant law firm. The court held the attorneys owed no duty to advise the client to cease an activity...more
The Appellate Division, First Department recently affirmed a trial court’s decision granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant law firm, holding that the plaintiff could not prove the proximate cause element of its...more
A Wisconsin appellate court held that to pursue a legal malpractice claim against a criminal defense attorney, the former client only has to show actual innocence to some, not all, of the charges for which he or she was...more
Jibreel Townsend v. Spear, Greenfield and Richman, P.C., Mark Greenfield, Rand Spear, Esq. Superior Court of Pennsylvania, No. 2950 EDA 2019 (8/13/20) - Brief Summary - A Pennsylvania court affirmed summary judgment in a...more
Skindzelewski v. Smith, 2020 WI 57 (June 18, 2020) - Brief Summary - A Wisconsin plaintiff's legal malpractice action against his former criminal defense attorney was shot down by the Wisconsin Supreme Court because he...more
Bush v. Eichholz et al., A19A1388 (Ga. Ct. App. Aug. 16, 2019) - Brief Summary - A personal injury client brought suit against its former law firm for legal malpractice. Because the client terminated the representation...more
Picciolo v. Rittley, 2019 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1116 - Brief Summary - The New Jersey Appellate Division affirmed summary judgment for defendants in a legal malpractice action where plaintiff failed to prove actual...more
LeHouillier v. Gallegos, 2019 Colo LEXIS 89 (Jan. 28, 2019) - Brief Summary - The Colorado Supreme Court concluded that the plaintiff in a legal malpractice case must bear the burden of proving "collectibility" as part...more
The long understood rule of law in Florida is that a cause of action for legal malpractice accrues in the litigation context when the litigation is concluded by a final judgment, and the final judgment becomes final when the...more