The State Bar of California has a bag of tools that personify well a proverbial carrot-and-stick approach.
What is the most common legal malpractice claim?
Attorneys in California and elsewhere whose client representation results in claims of legal malpractice commit a variety of sins. Some of their shortcomings that spawn client harm include these lapses from the professional standard of care governing their profession:
How can a CA resident steer clear of a bad-faith attorney?
Sometimes it takes a bit of proactive doing.
Establishing legal malpractice: connecting the dots
Here’s a hypothetical to ponder.
CA State Bar matter spotlights attorney’s trust account violation
Attorney conduct in California that falls below a designated standard of care for clients covers a lot of ground.
When does a CA client have a valid concern re a lawyer’s billing?
As a long-established and proven legal malpractice law firm that exclusively represents aggrieved clients of California attorneys, we cut straight to the chase concerning lawyers’ billing duties.
Court cites plaintiff’s laxity in pursuing legal malpractice claim
We pose a pointed question to California readers of our legal malpractice blog at the long-established Los Angeles law firm of Glickman & Glickman.
Key legal malpractice factor spotlighted: the “but for” element
Say that you’re a California resident having what you reasonably believe to be a strong legal claim against a third party for some alleged act of wrongdoing that caused you harm.
Here’s an obvious malpractice concern for CA legal regulators
Message from the California State Bar to practicing attorneys across the state: client money remitted in reliance on your legal representation better be going to you, not a non-attorney.
Plaintiffs respond to law firm’s representation with a lawsuit
Spokespersons for national law firm Jones Day unsurprisingly term the volunteer work that firm attorneys do on a so-called “pro bono” basis as routinely first-rate and even exceptional.
