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Attorney Malpractice But For Causation

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Illinois Supreme Court Holds Former Client Alleging Legal Malpractice May Recover Punitive Damages Awarded Against it in...

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

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Seventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Legal Malpractice Action For Lack of Proximate Cause

UFT Commercial Finance, LLC v. Fisher, No. 20-2012 (7th Cir., March 23, 2021) - Brief Summary - The Seventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a legal malpractice action filed by UFT Commercial Finance, LLC against the...more

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Florida Appellate Court Reduces Legal Malpractice Verdict From $5M to $250K Because Plaintiff Failed to Prove Underlying Judgment...

After a Florida law firm and one of its attorneys (defendants) were hit with a $5 million jury verdict in a case arising out of an underlying medical malpractice action, they—along with the firm's insurer—appealed. Because...more

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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

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Appellate Court Holds That Plaintiff Failed to Prove But For Causation, Reversing Award in Plaintiff's Legal Malpractice Action

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Drendall Law Office, P.C. v. Mundia, No. 19A-PL-582, 2019 Ind. App. LEXIS 523 (Ct. App. Dec. 2, 2019) - Brief Summary - The Court of Appeals in Indiana overturned a malpractice jury verdict of $312,000 in favor of a...more

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New Jersey Court Reaffirms Principle that a Plaintiff Must Establish "But For" Causation and Damages in a Malpractice Claim

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

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Illinois Appellate Court Reaffirms Necessity of Proving "But For" Causation in Transactional Malpractice Claim

Northern League v. Gozdecki, Del Guidice, Americus & Farkas, LLP, 2018 IL App (1st) 172407 - Brief Summary - Plaintiff sued its former lawyers for legal malpractice due to their alleged failure to include an exit fee...more

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Seventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Malpractice Claim Based on Plaintiff's Failure to Plead "But For" Causation

West Bend Mutual Ins. Co. v. Schumacher, ___ F.3d ___, 2016 WL 7395708 (7th Cir. 2016) - Brief Summary - Plaintiff, a workers' compensation insurer, filed a legal malpractice action against former defense counsel,...more

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