A responsive answer to the above blog query can be expressed in a single word. Namely, that is “sometimes.” It is not always the case that mitigation plays a key role in a California attorney’s disciplinary matter, though. A recent State Bar outcome...
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Year: 2019
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. The writers of a series of articles spotlighting...
How is the California fingerprinting process going for attorneys?
Getting approximately 190,000 active California attorneys to duly comply with a re-fingerprinting requirement has proven to be a bit of a problem. In fact, the process readily conjures up the maxim, “Easier said than done,” with thousands of practitioners...
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. For close to a decade now, a handful-plus of mesh...
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. For starters, you suffered damages that caught you totally by surprise. In fact, you thought that the matter you retained your attorney to...
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. It is simply a bedrock...
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,...
What are some common mistakes spurring malpractice claims?
A commentator notes in a recently penned law journal article a widely held misconception concerning legal malpractice. Namely, that is this: the predominant concern of many attorneys that they will be found liable for one or more major mistakes they make in their...
CA attorneys’ fingerprinting produces a notable result
The fingerprinting of California lawyers has long been a statutorily imposed requirement. Notwithstanding the duty, though, the onus has been less than routinely insisted upon by state legal regulators. That inconsistency in adhering to the law led to subsequent...
CA legal malpractice insurance mandate on near horizon?
A key California rule governing attorneys requires all practicing lawyers across the state to inform clients in writing if they don’t carry liability insurance. Proponents of that mandate regard it as a core protection for the general public. Practitioners who don’t...