A savvy business owner knows that legal counsel is often necessary for big business decisions. A good attorney can help guide business owners through negotiations so that they better understand the implications of a business decision. But what if the advice given by...
The COVID-19 pandemic shifted how we work. Those able to work from home found themselves trying to figure out how to get their work done remotely. This involved setting up a home office space and conducting remote instead of in-person meetings using platforms like...
A recent study by insurance broker Ames & Gough found legal malpractice claims continued to rise in 2020. The group has conducted surveys to gather information about legal malpractice claims for the last ten years, and states that claims with multi-million-dollar...
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. Notwithstanding the strong merits underlying your lawsuit, you lose the case. The...
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. Fee splitting is akin to a dirty word and spells a reproachable practice to state...
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. Two individuals who recently filed a lawsuit against the firm in a Southern...
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...
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...
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...
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...
