Legal Malpractice

What if they gave a Legal Malpractice Trial and the Jurors Didn't Care?

By (Andrew Lavoott Bluestone)

The Madison Record regularly reports on legal malpractice cases within its geographical confines.  Here is a long article on a current trial.  Of interest?  The juror's attitude.

"Attorneys in the Thompson Coburn legal malpractice trial care deeply about constructive trust and fiduciary duty, but the jurors don't seem to care at all.

On Thursday, March 20, with sunshine beckoning through high windows in Circuit Judge Daniel Stack's court, the jurors wore expressions like teens in detention.

They expected to have returned to their daily routines by this time, but instead they sat in their box watching men exchange contempt.

At the height of hostility between Regions Bank counsel Rex Carr and Thompson Coburn witness retired Adams County Judge Dennis Cashman, three jurors dozed, one slumped forward, one shook his legs, and one bent hard left.

At one point Carr dramatically sent a single sheet of paper to each juror and then ran so far off point that, one by one, the jurors slid the sheets into their folders. "

Full post as published by New York Attorney Malpractice Blog on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).