When a lawyer is sued for negligence in conjunction with the appellate process who decides whether or not the appeal would have been successful, judge or jury? The judge makes the decision, according to the Illinois Supreme Court. The Court said that "the issue of proximate cause in an appellate…
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that executors of an estate can sue the decedent’s attorney for malpractice for negligently providing estate planning advice. In Belt v. Openheimer, Blend, Harrison & Tate, Inc., No. 04-0681 (May 5, 2005), the executors claimed that poor estate planning cost the estate $1.5M that…
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