Welcome to Southeast Takeaways, a weekly look at news of the legal profession that will highlight important developments to help you manage your firms, grow your practices and serve your clients better. We’ll bring you the most vital information from around ALM, but we’d love to hear from you too. I’m Everett Catts, and you can reach me at [email protected].

Last month, when Ames & Gough, a McLean, Virginia-based insurance brokerage firm, released the findings of its 12th annual Lawyers’ Professional Liability Insurance Survey, it signaled some bad news for law firms nationwide and in the Southeast: that legal malpractice claim costs are going up at astronomical rates.