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More Patent Legal Malpractice News

By (Andrew Lavoott Bluestone)

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It's all over the law news today, and here is NY Lawyer's report on the Kirkland Ellis patent legal malpractice case in Illinois:

"In an Illinois state court filing last week, Kirkland & Ellis is being sued for legal malpractice by a former client that blames the law firm for the loss of a patent case that cost the company $18.75 million.

Magnetek Inc., a Menomonee Falls, Wis.-based maker of digital power and motion-control systems, filed the lawsuit against Kirkland on Aug. 14 in the Circuit Court of Cook County. Magnetek v. Kirkland, No. 2008L008970. The company alleges that the law firm failed to investigate and discover prior art and misconduct related to the patent that was the focus of a lawsuit brought by Ole K. Nilssen in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Magnetek in 1998. Nilssen v. Magnetek, No. 98-C2229.

Kirkland spokeswoman Kate Kortenkamp declined to comment on the case or to say which law firm her firm will hire to handle the case. Magnetek has hired Mitchell Katten of Chicago-based Katten & Temple, a three-attorney firm that was formed in April, and Martin Washton, a former Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher attorney who is now at Los Angeles-based Towle, Denison, Smith & Tavera. "

Full post as published by New York Attorney Malpractice Blog on August 20, 2008 (boomark / email).