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- November 2, 2004 7:35 PM About Us
Ethical Questions
- February 8, 2006 9:30 PM Can a Lawyer Be Held Accountable for Aiding & Abetting Their Client's Wrongful Conduct?
- March 6, 2009 5:23 PM Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Launches New Civics Web-Site for Kids!
- March 12, 2007 8:50 PM Legal Malpractice Conference Held in Chicago
- January 30, 2006 9:58 PM A Problematic Dual Role: Lawyer & Director
- November 7, 2005 9:19 PM Judgmental Immunity - Defense or Delay?*
- November 19, 2007 10:21 PM Legal Malpractice Carrier Takes a Hard Line in New Jersey Case
- April 27, 2007 10:50 PM When Legal Startegy & Ethics Conflict
- March 23, 2007 10:23 PM Coke Punks In-House Counsel
- February 21, 2007 9:26 PM Indiana Legal Malpractice Case Addresses The Issue of Equitable Subrogation
- October 18, 2006 10:44 PM Michael Jackson Sues His Former Lawyers
- September 18, 2006 7:41 PM Further Commentary on Collectibilty and the Burden of Proof in Legal Malpractice Cases
- May 8, 2006 9:37 PM Could the Vickie Marshall (a.k.a. Anna Nicole Smith) v. Pierce Marshall Spectacle Result in a Legal Malpractice Case?
- April 7, 2006 8:39 PM L.A. Law Firms' Use of Wiretapping Could Put the Firms' Out of Business
- February 17, 2006 6:01 PM A Client Files a Claim against His Lawyers for Violation of Colorado's Consumer Protection Act
- February 1, 2006 9:08 PM Legal Malpractice From Failing To Recommend A Structured Settlement?
- January 25, 2006 7:05 PM A Law Firm and Bank are Found to Have Breached Their Fiduciary Duties to an Elderly Widow
- January 9, 2006 4:35 PM Attorney Advertising on the Internet
- September 2, 2005 3:52 AM Disclaimer
- September 2, 2005 3:49 AM Privacy Policy
- November 2, 2004 7:38 PM Legal Services
- November 2, 2005 2:41 PM Little Known Facts About the U.S. Supreme Court
- May 17, 2006 9:29 PM The American Bar Association Renders an Opinion Distinguishing "Puffing" done in Negotiation from "False Statements of Material Fact"
- November 2, 2005 7:55 PM Welcome to the Illinois Legal Malpractice Blog
- January 7, 2009 9:25 PM Blackwater Legal Malpractice Suit Dismissed
- January 7, 2009 7:43 PM Will the Economic Downturn Cause an Increase in Legal Malpractice Claims?
- February 22, 2008 4:47 PM Court Lambastes Lawyers in their Handling of a Jamaican Immigrant's Case
- May 7, 2007 4:45 PM Illinois Attorney General Sued for Malpractice
- March 23, 2007 11:06 PM Lawyer Indicted for Stealing Millions from Clients and Law Firm
- February 14, 2007 9:19 PM Fee Sharing Dispute Decided by Illinois Appellate Court
- January 15, 2007 9:02 PM Legal Malpractice Suit Addresses Interesting Bankruptcy Issues
- December 8, 2006 8:46 PM Should Law Firms Ever be Indicted? Milberg Weiss Indictment Sparks Interesting Question
- September 22, 2006 8:15 PM Lawyers Beware Of What Information You Discuss in Legal Seminars
- August 4, 2006 7:21 PM White Supremacist, Matthew Hale, Files a Legal Malpractice Case
- June 7, 2006 9:09 PM A New Form of Alternative Dispute Resolution: Two Battling Lawyers Ordered to Play a Game of 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'
- June 6, 2006 3:03 PM More Bad News For Milberg Weiss
- May 24, 2006 4:55 PM Will the Milberg Weiss Firm Survive Indictment?
- May 17, 2006 8:50 PM An Indictment Seems Imminent for a Prominent Class-Action Law Firm
- May 3, 2006 3:15 PM Lawyer "Blawgging"
- March 17, 2006 9:13 PM Ethics Questions Abound in a High Profile Legal Malpractice Case Stemming from a Water Bottling Dispute
- March 10, 2006 7:43 PM A High-Profile Legal Malpractice Trial in Portland, Oregon
- February 15, 2006 5:25 PM The Increasing Trend in Legal Malpractice Suits Against Large Law Firms Who Represent Corporations
- January 23, 2006 9:04 PM New York Court Throws Out Brokers' Legal Malpractice Case
- December 14, 2005 10:09 PM Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Arrives in Illinois
- November 21, 2005 6:51 PM Have Lawyers Become Less Effective Guardians Against Corporate Malfeasance?
- November 9, 2005 8:23 PM $6 Million Judgment Rendered in Cleveland Legal Malpractice Case
- November 2, 2005 1:02 PM P.I. Defense Lawyer Malpractice Claims on the Rise while Malpractice Claims Decline in Other Areas of the Law
- July 21, 2008 9:16 PM In a "Defense-Type" Legal Malpractice Case, Actual Damages Can be Shown by the Entry of a Judgment Adverse to the Client, Even if the Judgment has Not Been Paid
- January 28, 2008 10:50 PM Failure to List Legal Malpractice Lawsuit as an Asset In a Bankruptcy Leads to Dismissal of Lawsuit
- October 29, 2007 10:25 PM Illinois Appellate Court Holds Client's Settlement of Underlying Case Does Not Preclude Malpractice Claim
- October 15, 2007 5:52 PM Illinois Appellate Court Holds That Defendant's Solvency is Required Element of Plaintiff's Legal Malpractice Action
- July 18, 2007 9:48 PM The Illinois Apellate Court Clarifies When the Two-Year Statute of Limitations Period Begins to Run in Legal Malpractice Cases
- April 18, 2007 9:35 PM Insurer Able To Proceed With Legal Malpratice Lawsuit
- March 26, 2007 8:53 PM Puncturing of Large Inflatable Rat Leads to Defamation Suit Against an Attorney
- October 20, 2006 5:44 PM Oregon Supreme Court Addresses The Issue Of A Lawyer Aiding & Abetting Their Client's Breach of Fiduciary Duty
- October 18, 2006 9:45 PM Botched Property Sale Results In A Legal Malpractice Case
- October 6, 2006 8:46 PM Illinois Supreme Court Has Lots to Say About the Leal Malpractice Statute of Repose (the DeLuna Opinion)
- September 1, 2006 9:51 PM In Legal Malpractice Cases, Who Has The Burden Of Proving That The Judgment From the Underlying Case Would Not Have Been Collectible?
- July 19, 2006 9:53 PM In "Appellate Legal Malpractice" Cases, The Trial Court Decides Whether The Appeal Would Have Been Successful
- July 19, 2006 3:54 PM The Illinois Supreme Court Rejects Lost Punitive Damages In Legal Malpractice Cases
- May 15, 2006 9:52 PM Seventh Circuit Decision Holds Court Lacked Subject Matter Jurisdiction over a Legal Malpractice Lawsuit Stemming from Representation in a Federal Criminal Case
- April 26, 2006 8:07 PM Kentucky's Supreme Court Holds Attorneys May Be Liable for Errors in Judgment When They Fail to Exercise Reasonable Care
- March 8, 2006 10:38 PM A Client Is Penalized When a Merged Chicago Law Firm Violates Conflict of Interest Rules
- February 20, 2006 6:57 PM Legal Malpractice Action Changes the Application of the Void Ab Initio Doctrine in Illinois
- January 6, 2006 11:07 PM Implied Attorney-Client Relationship Stemming from a Joint Defense Agreement Leads to the Disqualification of a Law Firm
- January 4, 2006 9:52 PM Failure to Prove Proximate Cause Results in a Dismissal of a Legal Malpractice Complaint
- December 19, 2005 8:56 PM Intervening Proximate Cause Not a Defense in Recent Legal Malpractice Case
- December 7, 2005 9:56 PM Indemnity Judgments that do not Affect Amount of Client's Liability Cannot be a Basis of a Legal Malpractice Suit
- December 2, 2005 10:05 PM Illinois Appellate Court Applies the 'Transactional Test' to a Recent Legal Malpractice Case
- December 2, 2005 3:20 PM The Illinois Supreme Court grants a PLA in the DeLuna Case
- November 16, 2005 8:43 PM DeLuna 'Test Case' Leads to a Legal Mapractice Case (Part II)
- November 14, 2005 4:59 PM Failed 'Test Case' Results in a Legal Malpractice Claim
- November 4, 2005 9:32 PM A Future Legal Malpractice Claim is Found to be Released in a Prior Settlement between a Lawyer and his Client
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