"Legal Malpractice" tagged Cases and Lawsuits
| Case | Case Filed | Last Document |
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| Pendergest-Holt v. Sjoblom et al | March 27, 2009 | March 27, 2009 |
| Grochocinski v. Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP et al | October 10, 2006 | November 6, 2007 |
| Plaintiff as Chapter 7 Trustee for the bankruptcy estate of CMGT, Inc. filed suit against Mayer Brown Rowe and Maw, LLP, Ronald Given and Charles W. Trautner for legal malpractice. Plaintiff alleged that Mayer Brown advised CMGT not to respond to Spehar Capital's motion for TRO. As a result, Spehar obtained a TRO and later a default judgment against CMGT for $17 million. Spehar then used the $17 million default judgment to file an involuntary petition for bankruptcy against CMGT. |
| Gainor v. Sidley, Austin, Brow | July 12, 2006 | October 9, 2007 |
| Plaintiff alleged that defendant Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, LLP committed legal malpractice when it issued a "more likely than not" opinion letter to indicate that the deductions arising from a tax saving strategy would be upheld when in fact such strategy should instead have been registered as a potentially abusive tax shelter. |
| Norkin v. DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary L.L.P. | October 26, 2005 | March 31, 2006 |
| Plaintiff David Norkin alleged that Defendant DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, LLP committed professional malpractice and breached its fiduciary duty to him and Britestarr by operating under an undisclosed conflict of interest when it (1) provided him with advice in connection with his personal bankruptcy proceeding, and (2) recommended that Britestarr file for bankruptcy and that Norkin resign as its president. |
| CNA Holdings Inc et al v. Kaye Scholer LLP et al | June 19, 2008 | |
