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Legal Updates for Lawyers’ Professional Liability - Case Law Update

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Florida Court Warns Attorneys: Verify AI-Generated Citations or Face Discipline - Russell v. Mells, Fla. 2d DCA, No. 2D2024-1560, 2025 WL 3533637, Dec. 10, 2025  - More and more, judges are referring attorneys to the bar for...more

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Pennsylvania Bar Association Formal Opinion 2025-100 Reinforces Written Fee Agreements as Essential for Compliance and Risk...

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In Formal Opinion 2025-100, the Pennsylvania Bar Association Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility emphasizes the importance of written fee arrangements. The recent Opinion clarifies the minimum...more

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California Supreme Court Rejects Automatic Expungement of Attorney Disciplinary Records

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Last year, we reported on a California State Bar initiative to expunge attorney discipline records, other than disbarment, after eight years. See Legal Updates for Lawyers’ Professional Liability – February 2025. The proposed...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, V 3, Issue 1, 2026

Welcome to our first issue of 2026 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. We have been publishing The Health Record for three years and we hope you find it informative and helpful. We appreciate you...more

Swope, Rodante P.A.

If Florida Is Truly Pro Life, Every Life Must Count, Even After Death

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Florida remains the only state in the country that denies families the right to pursue a medical malpractice claim when an adult dies with no spouse and no children....more

Wiley Rein LLP

No Coverage for Claim Made During Policy Period but Reported After Policy Period

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The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, applying Illinois law, has held that there is no coverage under a claims-made policy for a claim made during the policy period but reported after the policy...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

AI Hallucinations, Sanctions, and Context: What a Florida Disciplinary Case Really Teaches

There is no doubt that artificial intelligence now offers a powerful upside for high-level legal work. Since the widespread availability of generative AI, legal scholars, technologists, and product developers have...more

Miles Mediation & Arbitration

Application of the Economic Loss Rule in Texas

The economic loss rule provides a limitation on damages in cases alleging both breach of contract and certain other causes of action sounding in tort, by precluding a party’s recovery of damages when the only economic loss is...more

Maison Law

The Four Components of Negligence in California Personal Injury Cases

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If you've suffered an injury in California and you're pursuing damages through the courts, you'll need to familiarize yourself with the concept of negligence. The word itself refers to someone failing to exercise due care in...more

Roetzel & Andress

Understanding the IDFPR Investigation and Complaint Process: The Basics for Health Care Providers

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Have you received a call from an investigator or prosecutor at the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (“IDFPR” or “Department”)? While not a welcome event, there are several important things to...more

Morris James LLP

When a Missed Diagnosis Changes Everything: Delayed Treatment of Spinal Epidural Abscess

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A spinal epidural abscess rarely announces itself as a medical emergency. For many patients, it begins quietly with back pain that feels routine, a fever that seems manageable, or weakness that is easy to explain away. Days...more

Tyson & Mendes LLP

A Nuclear Lesson in Ethics & Conflicts from the Eastern District of New York

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Attorneys should always strive for the zealous representation of their clients to ensure their clients are not only happy with the results of their legal representation, but to also ensure said clients are as protected as...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Oregon Supreme Court Expands Medical Professionals’ Ordinary Negligence Liability to Nonpatient Third Parties

On December 11, 2025, the Oregon Supreme Court confirmed that a medical professional can face ordinary negligence claims by nonpatient third parties for physical injuries caused by their patient, at least where the medical...more

Morris James LLP

Birth Injuries Linked to Excessive or Improper Pitocin Use

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Pitocin is commonly described as a way to “help things along,” and, when administered properly, it is a safe and effective aid in many childbirths. Your delivery team may suggest it when labor slows, membranes rupture without...more

Clark Hill PLC

Poteat v. Asteak: Pennsylvania Court Effectively Extends the Statute of Limitations for Legal Malpractice Claims

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On Dec. 11th, the Superior Court released its long-awaited opinion in Poteat v. Asteak regarding the applicability of the gist of the action doctrine in legal malpractice matters, holding it does not apply and essentially...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Relationship Limits: 11th Circuit Reins in Scope of “Relating To” in Insurance Policy Exclusions

Insurers often rely on introductory phrases in exclusions, such as the phrase “relating to,” to expand the scope of exclusions beyond all reasonable bounds. The Eleventh Circuit recently reaffirmed that insurance exclusions —...more

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Colorado’s Evolving Malpractice Damages Framework: Legislative Increases and Supreme Court Guidance

The landscape surrounding Colorado’s healthcare malpractice damage caps continues to shift. Earlier this year, the Colorado General Assembly enacted wholesale changes to the Health Care Availability Act (HCAA). These changes...more

Maynard Nexsen

Alabama Supreme Court Appellate Alert: Decisions from December 12, 2025

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The Alabama Supreme Court issued its weekly release list on Friday, December 12, which included the following opinions of interest to the Alabama business community...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Lessons Learned from Our Annual Seminar: Stewardship, Ethics, and Accountability

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At Robins Kaplan’s annual Fiduciary and Wealth Disputes Seminar “What Keeps Fiduciaries Up At Night?” attendees heard from John Taft, Vice Chair at Baird and a 40-year veteran of the financial services industry....more

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When Anesthesia Errors Lead to Brain Injuries: What You Need to Know

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Every patient who undergoes surgery places tremendous trust in the medical team, including the anesthesiologist or CRNA. Anesthesia allows patients to undergo procedures without pain or awareness. It is highly effective but...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Proposed Rule Expands Attorneys’ Duty to Check For Errors Resulting From...

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Artificial Intelligence is rapidly influencing the legal profession and remains a hot topic for attorneys and the courts. AI has proven useful for everything from routine administrative tasks to case-analysis summaries. It...more

Hogan Lovells

Bar Council’s Updated AI Guidance – Clearer Expectations, Limited Change in Practice

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The Bar Council's November 2025 note on generative AI is an evolution of its original January 2024 paper rather than a wholesale rewrite. The revised document, developed by the Bar Council's IT Panel with input from its...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

AI in the California Legal Profession: Dangers and Guidelines

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) has become prevalent in nearly every sector of society, and the practice of law is no exception. However, as with other technological innovations, the rapid development and refinement...more

Freeman Mathis & Gary

Are you actually covered? A cyber insurance warning for real estate attorneys

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For real estate practitioners, this might be the most important client alert you read this year. Imagine this scenario: you are a real estate closing attorney who has received the funds necessary to pay off a seller’s...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

DEA’s Pending Telemedicine Rule: What Ketamine Clinics Need to Know

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The legal and regulatory landscape for ketamine clinics is shifting once again, as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) prepares to release its “Fourth Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for...more

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