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By Colleen Murphy | July 19, 2023
"By suing Brach [Eichler] and claiming it committed legal malpractice, GMD implicitly waived the attorney-client privilege by placing at issue in the malpractice action the legal advice Cole [Schotz], as superseding counsel, gave GMD with respect to settling GMD's claims against Hollister and Arch," the per curiam opinion said.
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By Cedra Mayfield | July 17, 2023
"Plaintiff's counsel requested that the court provide guidance as to what content and other public statements may be shared with the public and what plaintiff's counsel should do with content that is already in the public domain," read the motion filed by Mike Rafi.
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By Colleen Murphy | July 14, 2023
The Appellate Division reversed a Union County Superior Court's dismissal of a legal malpractice claim leveled against Senate President Nicholas P. Scutari over his representation of a since-deceased man in his personal injury claim.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | July 14, 2023
The lawsuit also named partner Douglas Rommelmann and then-associate Brett Cooke as defendants.
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By Alesia S. Sulock and Josh J.T. Byrne | July 14, 2023
By incorporating risk management from the very beginning of the representation, an attorney can better protect against legal malpractice claims or disciplinary complaints arising from simple misunderstandings between lawyer and client.
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By ALM Staff | July 13, 2023
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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By Ellen C. Brotman | July 12, 2023
In early May, the American Bar Association issued Formal Ethics Opinion 505, in which it opined that a fee is never "nonrefundable" and that a fee paid in advance of the provision of services can never be placed into a lawyer's operating account.
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By Colleen Murphy | July 10, 2023
The malpractice suit, "Zirvi v. Illumina," was filed April 8 by Lorium Law and Soliman & Associates on behalf of physician/scientist Monib Zirvi. Zirvi alleges that Latham & Watkins and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld failed to properly advise him in connection with an underlying patent infringement lawsuit against Illumina and Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | July 6, 2023
On each tort claim, the appeals court said the Gibson parties' summary judgment motion "presented no ground to the trial court that disproved any element" of the Padua parties' claims.
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By Colleen Murphy | July 6, 2023
The suit was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
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