by mgall74 | Nov 18, 2019 | Business Litigation and Legal Malpractice
I am a commercial litigator and occasionally I’m asked, what does commercial litigation mean? In its simplest form: disputes over contracts. Here’s a case we handled recently at Maselli Warren, P.C. that illustrates commercial litigation. Names have been changed to...
by mgall74 | Mar 22, 2019 | Business Litigation and Legal Malpractice
Lawsuits for legal malpractice are all about what the lawyer was supposed to do. For a client to successfully sue his or her former attorney for legal malpractice, the client must first establish what a lawyer is supposed to do in handling a matter like the one...
by mgall74 | Oct 26, 2018 | Business Litigation and Legal Malpractice
Usually attorneys know their clients and their clients know their attorneys. But not always. In a recent New Jersey appellate court decision (Greening v. Levine), the appellate court grappled with the issue of whether a lawyer who represented a condominium association...
by mgall74 | Jun 6, 2018 | Business Litigation and Legal Malpractice, General Legal Issues
Even though your case did not turn out the way you hoped, most of the time, it is not your lawyer’s fault. But sometimes it is. In New Jersey, an attorney will be liable to a former client if the attorney fails to meet the “standard of care” and as a result, the...
by sk | Jun 17, 2014 | Business Litigation and Legal Malpractice
Imagine that you or your business runs into a legal problem. You don’t think you understand enough about the issue to tackle it on your own, so you make the prudent decision to enlist someone who does: you call an attorney. You...
by sk | May 20, 2014 | Business Litigation and Legal Malpractice
In April 2014 the Working Group on Business Litigation, formed in the fall of 2013 by New Jersey Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, issued its report and recommendations on the needs of business litigants. This process is a continuation of the steps the Judiciary has taken...