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Recent Posts

• Whether to Arbitrate a Legal Malpractice case: caught between a litigation rock and an arbitration hard place…
• A Tale of Two Grievances— (1) $20 too late, and (2) $650 too much
• The Statute of Limitations: Now you see it, now you don’t…
• Silence is Not Always Golden
• Litigation Rule # 3: Don’t wait until the last minute to serve a complaint…you never know what will happen.
• Is an expert needed to prove a breach of fiduciary duty? It depends….
• What percent of civil cases make it to trial?
• Suing someone else’s attorney for legal malpractice: what’s aggrievement got to do with it?
• You have a legal malpractice expert? Great …. but that’s still NOT good enough…
• How to protect yourself from a lawyer’s retaining lien
• What is a retaining lien, and how do lawyers get away with it?
• How Albert Einstein, of all people, may be helpful in collecting more damages in your legal malpractice case….
• SURPRISE ENDING: A court found that a particular legal malpractice plaintiff did not need an expert but only because the plaintiff spent seven years pursuing a legal malpractice case that did not exist….
• How long does it take to litigate a lawsuit from start to finish? Could it take … 1 year … 3 years … 28 years … 48 years or … 716 years? (Amazingly, the answer seems to be… yes.)
• May my negligent lawyer blame ME for his or her legal malpractice?
• How do I know if I have a “good” legal malpractice case?
• Update: the “American Rule” and legal malpractice
• My attorney’s legal malpractice caused extreme stress, emotional upset, or worse: may I sue the attorney for punitive damages?
• The most misunderstood part of a legal malpractice lawsuit: the “suit within a suit” a/k/a the “case within a case”
• In Connecticut, do attorneys have “a license to lie” during court proceedings?
• Legal Malpractice litigation: some of what you need to know BEFORE you decide whether to sue your lawyer
• What are the chances that MY attorney/law firm is committing legal malpractice and I don’t know about it?
• Does the statute of limitations for legal malpractice place clients at an unfair disadvantage?
• Can you collect legal fees as part of legal malpractice damages if you win your case?
• When is a legal malpractice expert not an expert, and why should I care?
• Lawyer joke is no joke: what do you do about attorneys who lie, or otherwise engage in deceptive conduct?
• What options do clients have to dispute legal fees with Connecticut, New York, or New Jersey attorneys?
• You Do WHAT For a Living?
• Unhappy with My Lawyer Blog Summary of Posts