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Scott Stroud: SA lawyer draws buzz, cash as Dems look to unseat Cornyn
Lashed to the mast of an increasingly unpopular presidency, Sen. John Cornyn has Democrats buzzing that they might have a chance to put a Texas Democrat in the U.S. Senate for the first time since Lloyd Bentsen stepped down in 1993. And a San Antonio lawyer who has proven his fundraising prowess in a big way has emerged as a leading contender. Mikal Watts, a trial lawyer who moved to San Antonio from Corpus Christi in August so his daughter could attend TMI — the Episcopal School of Texas held a fundraiser at his Dominion home a week ago for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Three U.S. senators — Charles Schumer of New York, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Ken Salazar of Colorado — were among those in attendance. Informally, the event was viewed as a test of Watts' ability to raise money for the party and, perhaps, carry its banner as a candidate next year.
NJ Court Widens Standard for Legal Malpractice Claims
A legal malpractice claim is not necessarily undermined by settlement of the underlying case, a New Jersey appeals court ruled Monday, poking a hole in a 2-year-old doctrine barring such litigation. A three-judge panel held, in Prospect Rehabilitation Services Inc. v. Squitieri, A-2991-05, that the malpractice suit should not be dismissed if the plaintiff claims the settlement's terms were neither satisfactory nor fair. Monday's ruling points a way around the state Supreme Court's holding in Puder v. Buechel, 183 N.J. 428 (2005), which barred a client from suing her lawyer for botching her case because a second lawyer had negotiated a favorable settlement for her. Puder was based on the court's public policy against permitting double recovery, but the critical factor was the plaintiff's expressed satisfaction with the settlement.
NEW JERSEY LEMON LAW ATTORNEY HONORED AS 2007 SUPER LAWYER IN ...
/24-7PressRelease/ - CHERRY HILL, NJ, April 05, 2007 -- For the third year in a row, Robert M. Silverman, founding partner of the lemon law and consumer advocacy firm of Kimmel & Silverman has been named a New Jersey Super Lawyer in a recent study by Law & Politics Magazine. The findings were published in the April 2007 edition of New Jersey Monthly. Silverman is the only lemon law lawyer in the State to receive this distinction. Attorneys throughout the state were asked to vote for the most effective attorneys they have personally observed in action, with the top vote getters being named Super Lawyers. Only five percent of all attorneys statewide received this honor. Silverman was recognized for building the state's first full-service lemon law firm and assisting more than 40,000 distressed drivers across the tri-state region with cost-free legal representation, recovering over $137 million for their clients.
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