Legal Malpractice

Notwithstanding the claims that are sometimes made by a select group of attorneys in California and nationally that they are held to an impossibly high standard of performance by their clients and state bars, that is truly not the case -- at all. Of course, the public...

Imagine being a principal administrator of the following hospital. First, the facility is -- more correctly, was -- the long-time pride of its local community, operating independently as other hospitals gave in to financial crunches that compelled them to join large...

Both California plaintiffs and defendants in legal malpractice cases often have questions and concerns as to when the clock starts running on a malpractice case. To be more specific, parties in such litigation need to know when the so-called "tolling" period that...

California plaintiffs -- ranging from individuals and institutional investors to business principals and additional parties -- who feel that they have suffered adverse outcomes in litigation that owed directly to substandard representation delivered by their lawyers...

As succinctly and unceremoniously noted in a recent business article chronicling the would-be purchase of a large land parcel near an international airport, "the transaction tanked." And that failure sowed solely to faulty legal advice rendered by a law firm, states...

Former client Larry Austin of the now defunct law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP says there is a compelling reason why he lost a case against the California Franchise Board and was presented with an $8 million bill for unpaid taxes. His contention: The firm's...

Readers might reasonably think that, for such a seemingly simple and direct question as that posed above in today's blog headline, there must be a straightforward and definitive answer. And there is. To wit: maybe. The law is centrally about the facts, regardless of...

It goes without saying that there is no guarantee with a jury trial. Juries can return unpredictable verdicts, even when the evidence seems to suggest a contrary result. Not even the most skilled attorney can get inside the collective mind of a jury. At the same time,...

It's true of course, that legal malpractice claims in California and nationally often usher forth businesses as well as individual clients as plaintiffs alleging substandard legal performance leading directly to personal injury. The following story is a prime example...

As noted in a recent legal-news publication, the plaintiff in a legal malpractice case "furnished lots of detail about what the lawyer supposedly did wrong." In fact, that plaintiff -- West Bend Mutual Insurance Company -- presented to the court detailed information...