100 years + of collective legal malpractice experience
When you hire an attorney, you are entitled to their uncompromised loyalty and fierce advocacy. Your legal counsel has a fiduciary duty to you – which roughly means you should be able to trust that they would have your back in any situation even if no one were looking...
Of course, many lawyers choose to be litigators whose main professional focus is to bring lawsuits seeking recovery for clients’ injuries or financial losses, or to otherwise resolve conflicts. Litigators also defend clients in court whom others have sued. Litigation...
When a person retains an attorney to represent them, the client reasonably presumes the lawyer has the requisite knowledge, experience and skill in the area of law applicable to their case or other legal matter. When legal counsel does not have the familiarity with...
When something is important enough to seek the representation of a lawyer, you expect professionalism, skill, knowledge and the ability to help you reach your goals or fix your problem. What you do not anticipate is that legal counsel could make a basic mistake that...
Entertainment attorneys have unique relationships with clients who are singers, bands, instrumentalists or other kinds of musicians. In addition to contract work or litigation, musicians’ lawyers also may have other roles like those of negotiator, agent or promoter....
We hear in the news about trials where the lawyers face sanctions, discipline, fines or charges of unethical behavior for questionable actions in the courtroom or the course of litigation. These controversial acts may include making repetitive, frivolous or meritless...
Attorney negligence for serving clients with whom they may have conflicts of interest is the most common type of legal malpractice claim in the U.S., reports a prominent insurance broker in its 10th annual survey of 10 lawyer malpractice insurers. Professional duties...
Whether purchasing another business or crafting or reviewing a contract for an important business deal, many companies regularly rely on their legal teams to give them sound guidance on the transactions that build their businesses. When a deal falls through or a...
When because of someone else’s negligence or bad intentions a person gets injured or suffers another kind of personal harm, or incurs financial or commercial losses, they often choose to hire an attorney to file a lawsuit against the wrongdoer. While this seems like a...
Jurors in a Fort Lauderdale courtroom were unable to come to unanimous agreement on a legal malpractice count in a July 2022 trial involving conflict of interest in estate planning. In light of our recent discussions about the potential for malpractice in the context...