Do juries have the common sense to know when a personal injury lawyer's bungled attempt to get a doctor to show up at trial is negligence? Or is scheduling of medical testimony so mysterious and complex that it requires expert testimony? Those are questions an appellate division panel asked at argument last week in a legal malpractice case about two New Jersey lawyers' alleged failure to produce a medical witness at a trial. The case is unusual because the missing witness also was sued.
January 19, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Do juries have the common sense to know when a personal injury lawyer’s bungled attempt to get a doctor to show up at trial is negligence? Or is scheduling of medical testimony so mysterious and complex that it requires expert testimony?
Those are questions an appellate division panel asked Jan. 9 at argument in a legal malpractice case about two Morris County, N.J., lawyers’ alleged failure to produce a medical witness at a trial.
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