Legal Malpractice

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Every occupational group has inherent stresses and pressures that can mar individuals’ work quality and compromise their delivery of services to third parties who depend on them. Doctors are well known in that regard, for instance, as are airline pilots and...

The saying, “Pride comes before a fall” underscores that arrogance or a haughty nature often spurs conduct that can be injurious and self-defeating. Indeed, pride can easily cloud wise decision making and lead to adverse outcomes for individuals who can’t shelve their...

Clients retaining attorneys to promote their rights in legal matters justifiably assume that their legal counsel will always act competently. That so-called “standard of care” does not mean that a lawyer must be a paragon of perfection. Rather, it mandates that legal...