Under Florida law, the three elements of a legal malpractice action are generally described
Continue Reading Can estate beneficiaries sue the guardian’s lawyers for estate planning malpractice?
Under Florida law, the three elements of a legal malpractice action are generally described…
Continue Reading Can estate beneficiaries sue the guardian’s lawyers for estate planning malpractice?At the heart of this case is Florida Bar ethics Rule …
Continue Reading If a lawyer improperly writes himself into his client’s will, is the bequest automatically void as a matter of law?
The histrionics we see on television are almost never allowed in a…
Continue Reading Florida Supreme Court sanctions lawyers engaged in toxic e-mail feud
As a practicing lawyer, one of the best risk-management tools available to…
Continue Reading New ethics advisory opinion 10-3: when should lawyers voluntarily disclose client information to personal representatives and heirs
According to newspaper accounts this will contest revolved around allegations of undue…
Continue Reading Ethics violation = undue influence = attorney and paralegal forfeit $7.2 million bequestHere’s one of those facts of life most probate lawyers learn early…
Hernandez v. Gil, — So.2d —-, 2008 WL 5156623 (Fla. 3d…
Continue Reading 3d DCA lectures probate litigator on ethics
I previously wrote about this case from the perspective of how conflicts…
Continue Reading Jury rejects $17M legal estate-planning malpractice claim against Orrick
As a matter of law, an ethics violation isn’t the same as…
Continue Reading Trial begins in multimillion dollar estate-planning malpractice claim against Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe