By Katelyn Polantz | September 28, 2017
Email may be essential for lawyers, but this week it felt like their worst enemy.
By njlawjournal | New Jersey Law Journal | September 11, 2017
Attorneys share their insights on what New Jersey's restrictive insurance market means to their practice and why pending legislation promoting professional malpractice fairness might help.
By njlawjournal | New Jersey Law Journal | August 31, 2017
Malpractice Claim Against Bankruptcy Counsel Dismissed Where Clients Failed to Raise Objection to Counsel's Fee Application in Bankruptcy Court
By Michael Booth | August 4, 2017
The Appellate Division has reaffirmed trial courts' authority to require a legal malpractice plaintiff to present expert testimony to demonstrate proximate cause.
By Michael Booth | July 24, 2017
The New Jersey State Bar Association is leading a coalition urging lawmakers to shorten the filing period for malpractice claims from six to two years, but the state's principal plaintiffs bar group and others stand opposed.
By njlawjournal | New Jersey Law Journal | July 13, 2017
Registration to Do Business and Acceptance of Service of Process Alone Insufficient to Establish General Personal Jurisdiction
By Charles Toutant | July 5, 2017
Defunct Philadelphia law firm Wolf Block's corporate registration in New Jersey and its acceptance of service there for a malpractice suit against it did not give a New Jersey court jurisdiction to hear the case, the Appellate Division has ruled.
By Roy Strom | June 30, 2017
Don't want to get sued for legal malpractice? Here's one over-lawyerly solution: Don't hire laterals. A survey of malpractice insurers states that conflicts of interest, often arising from lateral recruits, is the most common reason for malpractice suits.
By David Gialanella | June 13, 2017
An investment adviser's legal malpractice claims against New Jersey firm Bressler, Amery & Ross are precluded by prior arbitration against his employer, a state appeals court has ruled.
By Charles Toutant | May 12, 2017
Allegations in a legal malpractice suit that a lawyer failed to obtain discovery in a timely manner are not so readily apparent that the plaintiff is exempt from obtaining expert testimony on proximate cause, the Appellate Division ruled Friday.
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