Lawyers are required to advocate for their clients with candor, proficiency, and diligence. Sometimes, a client may suffer harm due to a lawyer’s mistake. When these mistakes happen, a legal ...

Winning at the blame game is difficult to do. This holds especially true where the “blame game” is actually a claim for legal malpractice. After defendants moved to dismiss the complaint, the lower ...

Throughout the course of medical malpractice cases, depositions are a key component of the process of discovery. In these cases, it is common practice for defense counsel to seek the depositions of ...

Surgical procedures are meant to improve health, but when mistakes occur in the operating room, the consequences can be devastating. In such cases, a Surgical Malpractice Lawyer becomes essential in ...

An attorney's statements in the course of representing a client are not admissions and cannot be used as such against the attorney in a subsequent legal malpractice case. The Kansas Court of Appeals ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Clients may be told that another lawyer has committed “legal malpractice.” But, is it “legal malpractice” or merely a departure? What are the reviewers really saying when they talk of legal ...

The technology’s ability to make tasks easier and faster could spell fiduciary trouble. Lawyers notoriously struggle with technology. The legal profession is one of wood-paneled courtrooms and leather ...