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Illinois Appellate Court Rejects the Crime-Fraud Exception in a Defamation Claim

James MacDonald vs. Sally Wagenmaker, et.al., 2024 IL App (1st) 230089 (March 1, 2024) - Brief Summary - An Illinois appellate court reversed a discovery order compelling the defendant law firm to produce privileged...more

Law Firm Exonerated Because an Unforeseen Change in a Party's Testimony was the Superseding Cause of the Claimed Malpractice...

A defendant law firm was sued for legal malpractice after failing to obtain summary adjudication of a tortious interference claim against the former client and one of its brokers. The client later had to settle the case when...more

Plaintiff Cannot Maintain Legal Malpractice Action Absent Proof of Fraudulent Inducement to Settle

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

Defendants Entitled to Summary Judgment on Lack of Proximate Causation Because Plaintiffs' Expert Opinions were Conclusory

Summary judgment entered in the attorney defendant's favor on grounds of lack of causation in a legal malpractice case was upheld by a Texas court of appeal where plaintiffs' expert's opinions regarding proximate cause were...more

Plaintiff's Successor Counsel Not Liable for Contribution Where Underlying Case Was "Irretrievably Lost" Before He Was Retained

McNellis-Wallace v. Hoffman, et. al., Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, Docket No. A-1488-19T1 - Brief Summary - A New Jersey appellate court held that a defendant in a malpractice case could not maintain a...more

The Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter - Recent Developments in Risk Management - December 2019

Advertising – Internet – Keyword Purchase - N.J. Advisory Comm. on Prof'l Ethics, Formal Op. 735 (2019) - Risk Management Issue: May a lawyer ethically advertise using online keyword technology, including the purchase...more

Case Dismissed: Illinois Appellate Court Holds Legal Malpractice Claims Were Time-Barred and Corporate Adverse Domination Tolling...

Edward Shrock, et. al. v. Ungaretti & Harris, Ltd., et. al., 2019 IL App (1st) 181698 - Brief Summary - The First District Appellate Court in Illinois upheld the dismissal of a legal malpractice action brought by a...more

Judicial Error Doctrine Rejected as a Defense to Malpractice Claim Because Attorneys Failed to Appeal the Judgment in the...

American Inter-Fidelity Exchange v. Hope, et. al., (N.D. Illinois 17 C 7934) - Brief Summary - A federal district court in Illinois held that defendants, who were sued for malpractice after a default judgment was...more

The Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter - Recent Developments in Risk Management - March 2019

Insurance Coverage – Computer Fraud – E-Mail “Spoofing” - Medidata Sols., Inc. v. Fed. Ins. Co., 729 Fed. Appx. 117 (2d Cir. 2018), 2018 U.S. App. Lexis 18376, 2018 WL 3339245 - Risk Management Issue: Is e-mail “spoofing”...more

The Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter - Halloween Issue - October 2018

TRICK OR TREAT! - As Halloween nears, and the Great Pumpkin readies itself to visit, the editors of the Halloween edition of the Lawyers’ Lawyer Newsletter invite you to enjoy the suspenseful but hair-raisingly narrow...more

Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter - Recent Developments in Risk Management - March 2018

Lateral Hires – Screening – Moonlighting – Due Diligence by Hiring Firm – Vicarious Liability because of Lawyer's Apparent Authority - McFarland v. Niekamp, Weisensell, Mutersbaugh & Mastrantonio, LLP, 2017-Ohio-8394, 2017...more

The Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter - Recent Developments in Risk Management - May 2017

Fee Splitting – Enforcement of Undisclosed Agreements – Need for Specificity - Marin v. Constitution Realty, LLC, 2017 N.Y. Slip. Op. 01019, 2017 WL 521504 - Risk Management Issue: Is an attorney fee-splitting agreement...more

The Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter - Halloween Issue October 2016

TRICK OR TREAT! The editors of the Halloween edition of the Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter invite you to enjoy frightening tales of shocking assaults by non-clients on an unsuspecting law firm; a lawyer's nail-biting escape from...more

The Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter - Recent Developments in Risk Management - August 2016

Joint Clients — Confidentiality — Right to See Clients' File - New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion 1070 (10/9/15) - Risk Management Issue: In a joint client representation, if one...more

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