By Jason Grant | March 7, 2022
The former client alleges that Morrison Cohen, the well-respected commercial litigation and corporate transactional firm, helped him and another lip-balm and lotion company co-founder become equal partners, only to years later help that partner potentially oust him from both his thought-to-be equal position and equal financial distribution rights.
By Jason Grant | February 24, 2022
In an extraordinary series of events and suits involving the company Protostorm, the latest ruling is that the company can proceed with a malpractice lawsuit against Foley & Lardner and intellectual property partner Jonathan Moskin, because Foley and Moskin, after winning a 2014 federal malpractice trial on Protostorm's behalf against a Virginia law firm, allegedly waived joint and several liability against the individual attorney defendants.
By Jason Grant | January 12, 2022
A genetic-testing device company claimed that its former law firm, Amster Rothsteon & Ebenstein, had the obligation to independently investigate whether any prior publications about the new technology had triggered a deadline for the patent application, but the "plaintiff has not alleged that defendant was specifically directed to investigate, verify [or] report on the legitimacy of the initial publication date," said the Appellate Division, First Department court.
By William T. McCaffery | January 7, 2022
There are many simple risk management techniques that can be taken by any litigation practitioner that can significantly help prevent common legal malpractice claims.
By Dylan Jackson | December 21, 2021
As a saga involving allegations of surreptitious DNA collection, a hate mail campaign and a tennis pro comes to a close, Marvel executive Isaac Perlmutter's wife is suing Kasowitz Benson and a former partner for "malicious prosecution."
By Charles Toutant | November 12, 2021
Besides legal malpractice, the suit brings claims against both Garson brothers under a New Jersey statute allowing any person who suffers an ascertainable loss resulting from the unauthorized practice of law to seek actual damages and treble damages for costs incurred as a result of such activity.
By Patrick Smith | October 14, 2021
The action stems from the use of the word "buyers" in a 2014 contract. Both firms say the suit lacks merit.
By Hugo Guzman | August 23, 2021
The company that sued Jeremy Bohrer had paid him for defending its CLO in a federal investigation.
By Dan Packel | August 11, 2021
A former client says a partner went overboard in a filing that would allow the U.S. to collect duties on imported wood furniture.
By Meghann M. Cuniff | July 29, 2021
Avenatti's lawyering is so central to the criminal case against him that trial testimony so far also is testing the divide between crimes and malpractice.
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