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By Will Jordan Client brought malpractice action against his attorney alleging the attorney negligently advised him to execute a settlement agreement that was not in his best interest. It was undisputed that any act or omission by the attorney that allegedly caused the client to execute the settlement agreement occurred during the mediation. California has […]

By Will Jordan “It appears that Plaintiffs argue that Stolier was Matthews’s lawyer because Matthews was a client of Stolier’s law firm. Plaintiffs have not, however, cited any legal authority supporting their assertion that when a client retains an attorney in a firm an attorney-client relationship is formed with every single lawyer in the firm. […]

By Will Jordan Plaintiff brought suit against a law firm for legal malpractice and included “allegations of defendants’ fraudulent conduct.” The legal malpractice claims were barred by the statute of limitations. The court held that the fraud claim, which was subject to a longer statute of limitations, were duplicative of the legal malpractice claim and […]

By Will Jordan A law student sought and obtained advice from a lawyer at the firm at which he was working concerning his ongoing divorce litigation. The law clerk subsequently brought a legal malpractice action against the attorney and the law firm. The court affirmed the dismissal of the legal malpractice claim, concluding there was […]

By Will Jordan The Maryland Court of Special Appeals affirmed what should be obvious given the requirement of an attorney-client relationship in order to pursue a legal malpractice claim. The court specifically held that a “co-counsel relationship will not suffice.” A law firm does not have a cause of action for legal malpractice against its […]

By Will Jordan Plaintiffs sued their attorneys for legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty. Texas law recognizes a “rule against fracturing a negligence claim” which “prevents legal malpractice plaintiffs from opportunistically transforming a claim that sounds only in negligence into some other claim.” As the court noted, “[i]f the gist of the client’s complaint […]