When an attorney fails to adhere to their duty of care to their client and the lack of proper care in the delivery of legal services negligently harms the client, counsel has committed legal malpractice. The client may file a lawsuit for malpractice against their...
Expert Witnesses
Legal malpractice: What is a lawyer’s duty of care anyway?
The basic elements of legal malpractice are three: There is an attorney-client relationship. The lawyer breached their duty of care to the client. The breach harmed the client. Today we focus on the duty of care. It can be a hard concept to define and depends on the...
Protecting client interests includes meeting legal deadlines
Few legal matters are without deadlines. Both in and out of court, an attorney’s duty of care to their clients includes completing filing, notice, service and other legal acts on time in accord with required legal deadlines. The most obvious example is missing the...
Client challenges lawyers’ handling of Gatlinburg fire lawsuit
An attorney or law firm can make a negligent mistake in almost any area of law if they breach their reasonable duty of care to their client. When legal malpractice occurs during litigation, the client can suffer severe losses, mostly financial. Depending on the nature...
Legal malpractice: Expert testimony on a lawyer’s duty of care
We often write in this space about the required elements of a legal malpractice claim. Broadly, in an attorney-client relationship, the lawyer has a reasonable duty of care in the representation of the client. If legal counsel negligently breaches their duty of care...