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ON THE MOVE: Legal Community Creates Mutual Support Email Network
The State Bar of Georgia has created a new email networking program, SOLACE, to help anyone in the legal community facing a sudden, catastrophic event such as illness, injury or fire.
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As businesses and property owners assess damage from Superstorm Sandy, lawyers who have been fielding calls from insurers and policyholders say they are seeing areas of potential conflict and while most disputes could be settled out of court, they predict some lengthy and substantial litigation.No Affidavit of Merit or Expert Needed to Sue One's Lawyer for Fraud
Noncompliance with the affidavit of merit statute in a legal malpractice suit does not preclude a plaintiff from bringing a common-law fraud case against her lawyer, a New Jersey appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The court, while upholding dismissal of the plaintiff's malpractice and racketeering claims because of an affidavit filed too late, reinstated a fraud claim against the lawyer in the dispute that stemmed from a real estate transaction.Client Sues Firm After Funders Recover Most of His Settlement
A Brooklyn man is suing his attorneys at Mirman, Markovits & Landau for not looking after his interests after he received only $111 from a $150,000 settlement in his trip-and-fall personal injury case, while litigation finance companies received the bulk of the funds.Baptist Hospital added as medmal defendant because of joint venture
Third DCA said an amended complaint and joint venture agreement contained all the elements to properly allege a joint venture between Baptist Hospital and a pediatrician.
Businesses Damaged by Sandy Face Knotty Insurance Issues
As businesses and property owners assess damage from Superstorm Sandy, lawyers who have been fielding calls from insurers and policyholders say they are seeing areas of potential conflict and while most disputes could be settled out of court, they predict some lengthy and substantial litigation.
Contract Lets Lawyer Beat Arbitration
East Bay attorney Laurence Padway says a boilerplate contract clause let him get his client out of arbitration and into a settlement worth nearly $2 million.
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