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• Indian law firms start taking professional indemnity insurance

  Mar 23 2012 There are no recorded cases of a former client suing his or her lawyer in India, but larger law firms across the country have started taking malpractice insurance... more

• Foreclosure law firm ordered to pay $2m and change practices for conduct in housing crisis

  Oct 11 2011 One of the largest foreclosure law firms in New York State, Steven J. Baum PC, has been ordered to pay the US government $2 million and to change its practices, after... more

• Are clients really getting better value from law firms?

  Aug 24 2011 This is an interesting opinion piece that interrogates the response given by large law firms to client demands for greater efficiency. It points out that for all... more

• Irish firm wound up by High Court after serious fraud

  Oct 29 2010 Dublin-based law firm Sean O'Ceallaigh & Co has been wound up by the High Court, after a partner admitted gambling away €2.5million of his clients' money on stocks and... more

• Baker & McKenzie slapped with $103 million malpractice verdict

  Oct 29 2010 Baker & McKenzie has been slapped with a $103 million malpractice verdict. The Mississippi jury found for the plaintiff, S. Lavon Evans Jr, who claimed that the... more

• Lawyer's $16 million typo

  May 12 2010 It is not an enviable position – Stroock & Stroock & Lavan is the law firm at the centre of a dispute between the buyers and developers of a 41-story condo project in... more

• Philadelphia Personal Injury Attorney Wins $1.5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

  May 07 2010 Neil T. Murray, a Philadelphia injury lawyer and partner at Sheridan & Murray wins $1.5M medical malpractice lawsuit. Read full story more

• $500m malpractice claim against Chadbourne & Parke dismissed

  Jan 09 2010 A New York state judge dismissed a $500 million lawsuit by Austrian bank Creditanstalt Investment Bank AG against law firm Chadbourne & Parke. The bank had based... more

• Former client sues Paul Hastings for $55m

  Dec 15 2009 Ableco Finance LLC, a financing unit of Cerberus Capital Management L.P. is seeking more than $55 million from Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, claiming the law firm... more

• Greenberg Traurig hit with $100m malpractice suit

  Sep 24 2009 Greenberg Traurig was hit Tuesday with a malpractice suit seeking more than $100 million in damages over allegations that it failed to properly prosecute patents for a... more

• Dechert and K&L Gates sued for malpractice

  Jan 20 2009 Money market fund Reserve Management Co. Inc. has launched a malpractice suit against Dechert and K&L Gates, claiming that the firms failed to advise it four years ago... more

• Kirkland faces US malpractice case

  Aug 22 2008 Kirkland & Ellis is being sued for malpractice by former patent client Magnetek. The move comes after the US firm lost a patent case on behalf of the electronics company. more

• Bankruptcy Trustee Sues McDermott Will for Malpractice

  Apr 17 2008 A bankruptcy trustee for Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers of New York has sued McDermott, Will & Emery for $1.2 billion in damages for legal malpractice, fraud... more

• Malpractice Suit Proceeds Against Paul Hastings

  Apr 16 2008 A New York judge has allowed a legal malpractice suit alleging faulty due diligence work by Paul, Hastings, Janofksy & Walker to proceed. Investor Ronald Katz hired... more

• Firms Fend Off More Malpractice Actions as Failed Deals Fuel Suits

  Apr 01 2008 Law firms are having mixed success in dismissing a growing number of high-dollar malpractice and fraud claims brought over failed corporate deals. In the past few... more

• Blackwater Hits Wiley Rein With $30 Million Malpractice Suit

  Jan 27 2008 Blackwater Security filed a $30 million malpractice suit against Wiley Rein on Wednesday, alleging that the firm made costly missteps in a wrongful death case brought... more

• Malpractice Suit Filed Against Weil Gotshal, Two Partners

  Dec 29 2007 A Dallas businessman has sued Weil, Gotshal & Manges, alleging that the firm and two of its partners took advantage of him as a client by lessening his interest in a... more

• California Supreme Court ruling let law firms off malpractice hook

  Oct 24 2007 The Golden State's lawyers copped a big break from the California Supreme Court in a legal-malpractice ruling last month, writes a prominent U.S. law firm. In its... more