Communication via email has become a ubiquitous means of conveying information in the practice of law. Also common are email chains where multiple people are recipients, and the ability to reach a great many people with the simple click of a button, the one that says “reply all.” Beyond the obvious warning to attorneys to…
Continue reading…Attorney Malpractice Claim in Underlying Criminal Case Need Not Show Defendant Would have Been Exonerated
New Jersey – Appellate Division. In Cortez v. Gindhart, No. A-0430-12T1 (App. Div. May 21, 2014) the Appellate Division rejected the traditional notion that in order to assert a legal malpractice claim in an underlying criminal case, the defendant must prove that he would have been exonerated but for the attorney’s negligence. Eduardo Cortez was represented by Joseph…
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