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Louisiana Court: ‘Collectibility’ Can’t Be Used to Limit Legal Malpractice Damage Amounts

Are a plaintiff’s damages in a legal malpractice case limited to the amount they could have collected in a judgement in the underlying lawsuit that an attorney was found to have mishandled? The Louisiana Supreme Court has said ‘no’ in …

South Carolina Establishes New Precedent for Legal Malpractice Cases

The South Carolina Supreme Court has reversed a decade old precedent-setting decision in which it dismissed a legal malpractice case based on the expiration of the statute of limitations and in doing so adopted a new rule for which the …