So you think that missing a deadline is no big deal?

What if you miss a calendar deadline?

What if missing that deadline translates into your client’s claim being “time barred”?

And the claim is “time barred” due to your calendaring error?

And then you find out that your client had a multi-million dollar claim.

It’s probably time to check if your malpractice insurance premiums are all paid up.

That’s what happened to Barry Scheck, Esq.

Innocence Project Co-Founder

Settles Malpractice Claim

Tom Perrotta
New York Law Journal
11-21-2006

Barry C. Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project, and his firm, Cochran, Neufeld & Scheck, have agreed to pay $900,000 to settle a malpractice claim by a man wrongfully convicted of rape.

The settlement ended acrimonious litigation that began in June 2005.

Scheck's former client, Lee Long, 46, alleged that Scheck missed a deadline in a lawsuit against the state seeking damages for wrongful conviction.

Long's malpractice claim sought $3 million in compensatory and punitive damages, plus treble damages and attorney fees.

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I think I will double-check my court rules every time.