April 01, 2024
A Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorney has secured an early win in a legal malpractice case alleging he botched an estate planning matter and lost his client millions in a later divorce, with a New Jersey federal court finding the client couldn't prove "proximate causation" of alleged damages in light of her subsequent divorce settlement.
March 31, 2020
A New Jersey federal judge has ordered that a Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorney face a malpractice lawsuit alleging that loan documents that purportedly included a forged signature caused a former client to take on millions in debt.
August 27, 2019
A New Jersey federal court should toss a claim that a Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorney engaged in legal malpractice by preparing loan documents that purportedly included a lawyer's forged signature and caused her to take on millions in debt, the attorney hit with the claims has argued.