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.
CA attorney discipline: What types of punishment can be ordered?
California has more actively practicing attorneys than any other state in the country. As can be clearly seen by any reader scanning even a few of our blog posts at the long-tenured Los Angeles legal malpractice law firm of Glickman & Glickman, some of those practitioners sometimes get into trouble.
Will mitigating factors lessen CA State Bar attorney punishment?
A responsive answer to the above blog query can be expressed in a single word. Namely, that is “sometimes.”
Attorney wrath: recipe for an explosion, not client success
Message to quick-to-anger California attorneys: Your propensity for wrath in legal matters is far more than personally destructive. More importantly, it almost certainly works to the detriment of your clients.
Growing number of pelvic mesh plaintiffs now suing attorneys
We surmise that many California readers of our Los Angeles legal malpractice blogs at Glickman & Glickman are not strangers to the material details surrounding the long and sad saga of pelvic mesh litigation.
What does proving a legal malpractice “case within the case” mean?
You want to make the case that you have a meritorious California legal malpractice case, and you think have a compelling claim.
What does attorney conflict of interest actually mean, entail?
California legal authorities – the state’s Supreme Court, State Bar and other regulators – harbor no ambiguity when it comes to making determinations concerning whose interests are paramount in any attorney-client interaction.
Potential warning flag for attorney clients: gluttony?
What do you think of when you hear the term “gluttony?” Many people might readily conjure up an image of a person who just can’t leave the buffet. Gluttony might similarly serve as an apt descriptor for an individual whose appetite for accumulation, overindulgence or sheer possession in virtually any context seemingly knows no bounds.
