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There’s something daunting about the idea of hiring a lawyer. The law can sometimes read like a foreign language, riddled with traps and pitfalls. You may have a lot riding on the matter. You might need to defend yourself from criminal charges, uphold your rights in a...
The State Bar of California has a bag of tools that personify well a proverbial carrot-and-stick approach. On the one hand, many individuals who apply themselves diligently during an arduous period of study are rewarded with a coveted professional license to practice...
Attorneys in California and elsewhere whose client representation results in claims of legal malpractice commit a variety of sins. Some of their shortcomings that spawn client harm include these lapses from the professional standard of care governing their profession:...
Sometimes it takes a bit of proactive doing. That is the bottom line applicable in select instances where a would-be or actual California client has strong misgivings about whether an attorney is acting competently and ethically or deceptively and in bad faith. Of...
Here’s a hypothetical to ponder. Say that you’re a California resident who has retained an attorney to represent you in a legal matter (that aptly describes many of our readers, of course). The quality of your legal counsel is flatly abysmal in every conceivable...
Attorney conduct in California that falls below a designated standard of care for clients covers a lot of ground. A lawyer’s performance can harm a client when it proceeds from a clear conflict of interest (for example, simultaneous representation of another party...
As a long-established and proven legal malpractice law firm that exclusively represents aggrieved clients of California attorneys, we cut straight to the chase concerning lawyers’ billing duties. In doing so, we note at Glickman & Glickman that the answer to...
We pose a pointed question to California readers of our legal malpractice blog at the long-established Los Angeles law firm of Glickman & Glickman. We directly ask this on a relevant website page: “Were you a victim of your attorney’s malpractice?” Candidly, that...
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...