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Reminder: check for client’s insurance, or you may be liable for malpractice

By Karen Rubin on October 9, 2014
Posted in Competence, Insurance, Malpractice

Failing to check whether the claim against your client might be covered by insurance can get you in hot water — or at least keep you there, preventing a speedy exit from a malpractice suit, as a Florida lawyer recently learned.

In Pharma Supply, Inc. v. Stein (PACER access ID required), the client alleged it…

Lack of privity sinks fiancée’s suit against divorce lawyer

By Karen Rubin on September 25, 2014
Posted in How Not to Practice, Malpractice

Divorce DecreeAfter winning more than $250,000 at trial, the fiancée of a deceased postal worker came up short in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals based on lack of privity between her and the lawyers who mishandled the decedent’s divorce.

In Scott v. Burgin, the fiancée and the decedent had lived together for years,…

Succession planning can save lawyers’ estates from liability

By Karen Rubin on August 6, 2014
Posted in Law Practice Management, Malpractice

If you feel the grim reaper approaching, you’d better inform your clients of any looming statutes of limitations — if you don’t, your estate may be liable on a legal malpractice claim.  That’s the message of a case decided earlier this year by the New York court of appeals.

In Cabrera v. Collazo, the…

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