Back in December, we wrote about a legal malpractice case filed by Teresa Giudice of Real Housewives of New Jersey fame. As we noted then, Giudice filed the malpractice case against her first bankruptcy attorney claiming that the outcome of her bankruptcy fraud case...
It was a trick worthy of a long-winded high school student, and it did not pay off. A federal judge has just fined a national law firm over $1,000 for violating the U.S. District Court in Manhattan's line-spacing rules for memoranda and briefs. The court requires...
In our last post, we began looking at the duty of loyalty and the rules concerning conflicts of interest. As we noted, conflicts of interests can arise with respect to current clients and former clients. With respect to former clients, attorneys are prohibited from...
