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
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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)
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The Illinois Supreme Court held that defendants' former client can seek to recover...more
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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
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
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) -
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A Pennsylvania court affirmed summary judgment in a...more
Skindzelewski v. Smith, 2020 WI 57 (June 18, 2020) -
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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) -
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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 -
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The New Jersey Appellate Division affirmed summary judgment for defendants in a legal malpractice action where plaintiff failed to prove actual...more
Milligan v. Salamone, 1:18-CV-327-RP (W.D. Tex. Mar. 14, 2019) -
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The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas recently upheld the bankruptcy court's order dismissing plaintiff's negligence...more
LeHouillier v. Gallegos, 2019 Colo LEXIS 89 (Jan. 28, 2019) -
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The Colorado Supreme Court concluded that the plaintiff in a legal malpractice case must bear the burden of proving "collectibility" as part...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
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
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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