A law firm's managers and senior partners are often understandably excited over the prospect of securing new talent through the lateral hiring of seasoned attorneys who are already successful in other firms. In doing so, they can shore up select practice areas and, importantly, expand their client list.
Link between lower CA bar scores, increased malpractice acts?
The relative difficulty of attorney bar exams in the various states is understandably subject matter that occasionally crops up among law school students, professors and deans, as well as in the offices of legal regulators across the country.
Are lawyer-client talks opened for scrutiny in malpractice suit?
One of the important features of the American justice system is attorney-client privilege. The privilege ensures that you can speak candidly with your lawyer and not worry that confidential matters will be revealed.
TV anchorman sues California attorney for alleged malpractice
A million dollars should just about do it.
CA appeals court: attorney's conduct flagrant, but no damages
Film producer David Bergstein's long legal odyssey in search of a money recovery against a formerly retained attorney later adjudged to have betrayed him will simply have to continue if he ever wants to receive a dime in damages.
Your lawyer, while not infallible, needs to be held accountable
Notwithstanding the claims that are sometimes made by a select group of attorneys in California and nationally that they are held to an impossibly high standard of performance by their clients and state bars, that is truly not the case -- at all.
Hospital board steadfast in malpractice suit against law firm
Imagine being a principal administrator of the following hospital.
Tick tock: California court weighs in on malpractice timing issue
Both California plaintiffs and defendants in legal malpractice cases often have questions and concerns as to when the clock starts running on a malpractice case.
Legal malpractice: the "case within the case"
California plaintiffs -- ranging from individuals and institutional investors to business principals and additional parties -- who feel that they have suffered adverse outcomes in litigation that owed directly to substandard representation delivered by their lawyers are often confused in the aftermath of a legal loss.
Business client claims faulty legal advice led to botched deal
As succinctly and unceremoniously noted in a recent business article chronicling the would-be purchase of a large land parcel near an international airport, "the transaction tanked."
