Jamess Bolan News Today

The severity of punishment from the Board of Bar Overseers typically depends on precedents from earlier cases. But the board has not had a case before it in recent memory with a comparable set of circumstances, lawyers said.

Lawyer for firm The Appeals Court has ruled that a couple’s legal malpractice claim alleging negligent settlement advice in a medical malpractice case should have been disposed of on summary judgment for lack of competent evidence that different representation would have secured a better result. The defendant law firm, Boston’s Lubin & Meyer, represented plaintiffs