A Mississippi law firm that missed a deadline in filing a medical malpractice case has itself been held liable for legal malpractice, reports the Clarion-Ledger. The lawsuit was filed by the sister of a woman who died of breast cancer in in June, 1999. The sister had originally engaged the firm to file a suit against the dead woman's regular physician, who had failed to order mammograms during the 8 years that she had been seeing him. The lawsuit alleged that although the attorneys had requested the deceased woman's medical records, they failed to file the lawsuit prior to the expiration of the statute of limitations. The Clarion-Ledger reported that the county jury returned a $375,000 verdict against the law firm.