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Month: December 2020

A lawyer can commit malpractice even when a case settles

by Donald St. Denis | Dec 19, 2020 | Legal Malpractice

People may assume that an attorney negligence claim can arise only when a judge or jury decides a case in a way that harms the client because the lawyer failed to exercise their professional duty of care in the process of the lawsuit. However, there are other...

Attorney’s duty of care relates to subject of representation agreement, part 2

by Donald St. Denis | Dec 1, 2020 | Duty of Care, Legal Malpractice

Part 1 of this post introduced the concept within legal malpractice law of defining the lawyer’s duty of care to the client by the scope of the agreed-upon reason the client hired the attorney. For what problem, goal or service did the client seek the lawyer’s...