A recent in-depth article addressed to practicing American attorneys sets forth a number of so-called “best practice” tips aimed at helping them steer clear of legal liability that might otherwise arise through deficient lawyering. The piece duly notes that legal...
A Law Firm Known For Getting Results
Los Angeles Professional Malpractice Law Blog
Is your CA attorney required to carry malpractice insurance?
California residents who retain attorneys often do so – and reasonably enough, we think – with the assumption that their relied-upon legal counsel carries malpractice insurance. Like practitioners in all other occupations, lawyers are imperfect beings....
New CA bill re lawyer fees focuses on public safety, discipline
It is clear what State Bar of California Executive Director Leah Wilson is primarily addressing in her reference to the “reform momentum” evident in recently passed legislation affecting state attorneys. Wilson’s focus is twofold, centering squarely...
Addressing legal conflict of interest, a widely varied concern
We note on our website (and, additionally, in many of our blog posts) that legal malpractice in California and elsewhere encompasses a broad realm of wrongdoing. Clients often have legitimate grievances against their retained legal counsel based on multiple grounds....
Revisiting the new California State Bar fingerprinting duty
Active California legal practitioners might collectively be lamenting the recently imposed duty upon them to submit to fingerprinting by the end of next April. We noted in a recent Glickman & Glickman blog post that the new onus has resulted in the State Bar of...
Attorney’s suspension/probation spotlights reciprocal discipline
Minnesota is a “sister state,” notes a recent written decision of the California State Bar Court. What that means is that California legal authorities will pay close attention to select attorney discipline proceedings there, as well as in all other states, which are...
Billing issues at the heart of many CA legal malpractice claims
No California attorney can reasonably be expected to perform for a client at a super-human level. Like everybody else, lawyers – even good ones – occasionally make mistakes. Sometimes, though, those errors become a problem. They might be multiple and/or material,...
Annual legal malpractice survey: many problem areas for law firms
Insurance broker company Ames & Gough conducts a widely studied annual survey of legal malpractice claims across the United States, looking at both specifics and trends. The findings it culled in its most recent look at data supplied by multiple large malpractice...
A missed deadline can have dire consequences in your legal matter
It is eminently reasonable for any lay person in California to justifiably rely upon the knowledge, competence and good-faith representation of a lawyer retained in a legal matter. Indeed, it would be ludicrous if that expectation was unwarranted. After all,...
Veteran’s medical malpractice claim denied
A Marine Corps veteran was denied his medical malpractice claim due to a little-known statute of limitations loophole. Brian Tally was misdiagnosed with a lower back strain, instead of staph infection that was eating away at his bones. Tally lives with his wife and...