Legal-Mal Links: Whistleblowers and Bad Checks 
Published: November 21, 2012
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Legal-Mal Links provides the latest legal malpractice news from around the web.
The first story for this week involves a former city lawyer who claims she was fired after complaining that her coworkers were systematically performing legal work poorly which in some cases even reached the level of legal malpractice.
Legal-Mal Links: Disbarment cases
Published: November 13, 2012
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Legal-Mal Links provides the latest legal malpractice news from around the web.
Our first two cases concern attorney disbarment. In the first, a Missouri lawyer has lost his law license over mishandling of client funds. The state has accused him of borrowing money from clients without informing them of the fairness of the transactions. In the second story, a disbarred Wisconsin attorney has gone before the state supreme court to protest additional charges brought against him after his disbarment, claiming prosecutors are intentionally trying to push him “into an early grave.
Legal-Mal Links: From Church to State
Published: October 25, 2012
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Legal-Mal Links provides the latest legal malpractice news from around the web.
A Washington State Catholic Diocese has sued the lawyers it hired to help settle clergy sex abuse claims, claiming the firm drafted a bankruptcy plan that failed to adequately take into account the risk of new claims. The Diocese also contends that the firm had a conflict of interest because it had also represented the previous Bishop and shielded him from testifying.
Legal-Mal Links: Flurry in Florida
Published: October 4, 2012
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Legal-Mal Links provides the latest legal malpractice news from around the web.
The Florida State Bar recently found that 17 of its attorneys must be disciplined.
Legal-Mal Links: The 21-year-old case
Published: September 25, 2012
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Legal-Mal Links provides the latest legal malpractice news from around the web.
This week’s edition begins with a case that reaches back to 1991 in which the client alleged that her attorneys dragged their feet for 15 years in the original medical malpractice suit over the death of her son.
Legal-Mal Links: A pair of reversals
Published: September 18, 2012
Tags: legal malpractice, Legal Malpractice Monitor, Legal-Mal Links
Legal-Mal Links will bring together the latest legal malpractice news from around the web.
For our first week of this feature, we start with a pair of reversals, from the successful appeal of a big legal malpractice verdict to the de-publishing of a case related to the meaning of “actual injury” in legal-mal cases.
