Los Angeles Professional Malpractice Law Blog

One of the important features of the American justice system is attorney-client privilege. The privilege ensures that you can speak candidly with your lawyer and not worry that confidential matters will be revealed. We recently read a column in a Los Angeles county...

A million dollars should just about do it. And that is not being at all greedy, Southern California meteorologist and weather personality Kyle Hunter would likely contend. Hunter is on the hook for an estimated $800,000 in costs following what he flatly states is...

Film producer David Bergstein's long legal odyssey in search of a money recovery against a formerly retained attorney later adjudged to have betrayed him will simply have to continue if he ever wants to receive a dime in damages. Actually, the entertainment principal,...

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...