All posts tagged "legal malpractice"
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5.6KEditors ChoiceWho is Goodwin Procter Lawyer Alexis Susan Coll-Very?
When she wasn't rocking it with her husband, Alexis Coll-Very was making a lot of noise for all the wrong reasons in...
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3.3KAccelerationThe Unprecedented Greed Series: Goodwin Procter Billing Model is Questioned Again and It’s an Ethical One Too.
In 1996, the Supreme Judicial Court held in In the Matter of Fordham that fee agreements are not simply pure matters of...
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4.2KAccelerationThe Goodwin Procter Billing Model; Double the Fees and then Some. Unprecedented Greed.
An arbitrator has found the law firm Goodwin Procter overcharged a real estate client by more than $540,000, e.g. 55% overbill. Unprecedented...
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2.0KEditors ChoiceMalpractice: When Lawyers Screw Up
Lawyer Malpractice in the United States; Why it is so hard for victims to recover damages? The Book, 'When Lawyers Screw Up'...
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2.6KDebt CollectorBankers Want Creditors Rights Law Firm Winstead PC to Pay Up in ‘Botched’ Foreclosure.
We're tracking this legal malpractice case at the Fifth Circuit COA in Dallas (State Court) about a botched $62m commercial foreclosure shortly...
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2.5K1Appellate CircuitA Legal Malpractice Award in Texas? Will it Stick? Heck No. And it’s a “Dredgeful” Opinion by the States Highest Court
Unfortunately, in this case, the client unwittingly relied upon bad professional legal advice, which is apparently not a good argument for a...
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2.2KEditors ChoiceNational Law Firm LeClairRyan To Shutter Following Bitter Lawsuits, Mass Attorney Departures and a Sharp Decline in Revenues
LeClairRyan has been facing lawsuits, including a $150 million lawsuit brought by Tonya Mallory, the founder and former chief executive officer of...
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1.5KEditors ChoiceFifth Circuit Says No Texas Lawyer is Gonna Pay $3M as it Orders a New Trial in Hopes Law Funder LLC is Out of Cash
Unbeknownst to Law Funder, Munoz had a close professional relationship with Judge Jesus Contreras, who was presiding over the Garcia divorce: Munoz...
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3.1K1Editors ChoiceLaw Funder LLC Case at the Fifth Circuit in a Veil of Secrecy as it Involves a Lawmaker, a Judge and Illegal Acts
ORAL ARGUMENT HEARD before Judges King, Smith, Willett. Arguing Person Information Updated for: John F. Carroll arguing for Appellants Sergio Munoz, Et...
