When lawyers screw up : improving access to justice for legal malpractice victims /

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Unhappy clients bring thousands of legal malpractice claims every year, against both mega law firms and solo practitioners, for simple errors or egregious misconduct, and for losses than can reach $100 million or more. This industry, legal services, can generate nearly $300 billion a year in revenue...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Kritzer, Herbert M., 1947- (Author), Vidmar, Neil (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2018]
Subjects:
Lawyers > Malpractice > United States.
Attorney and client > United States.
Avocats > Responsabilité professionnelle > États-Unis.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
Attorney and client
Lawyers > Malpractice
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Illustrative cases of lawyers' professional liability
  • Preliminary issues : insurance, bases of claims, important legal issues, and differences between medical professional liability and lawyers' professional liability
  • Claims : rates, sources, and issues
  • Resolving claims : lawsuits, claimant success, and payments
  • Legal malpractice trials
  • Processing lawyers' professional liability claims
  • Improving access to justice for those harmed by the actions of their lawyers.

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