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State Bar discipline, legal malpractice and serious personal injury attorney receives top honor from Georgia Trend Magazine.    

10 factors to consider before you sue your lawyer. So you’ve hired a lawyer to help you solve a problem. Something goes wrong and you don’t receive the service or outcome you expect. The first [...]

What to expect if the complaint against you ends up in front of the Georgia Supreme Court. Part 1 of this series discussed the initial response to a Bar complaint, and Part 2 covered what to [...]

Part 1 of this series discussed the initial response to a Bar complaint, and Part 2 covered what to expect if the complaint is assigned to the Investigative Panel. In Part 3, let’s look at ways [...]

Investigative Panel Review Part 1 of this series discussed the initial response to a Bar complaint, and provided some practical advice for improving the chances of success and minimizing the [...]

Learning some lessons from the recent Hunter Maclean v. St. Simons Waterfront appeal. How do you protect your internal firm communications from discovery in a legal malpractice case? The recent [...]

Responding to Bar Complaints. Receiving a Bar complaint can be one of the most traumatic experiences in an attorney’s professional career. I’ve spent a lot of time writing about how to avoid [...]

Douglas Chandler of Chandler Law LLC, along with Aubrey Smith of ProAssurance, presented at the August 2012 Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE) Group Mentioning session. The focus of [...]

Learning some lessons from the recent Hunter Maclean v. St. Simons Waterfront appeal. How do you protect your internal firm communications from discovery in a legal malpractice case? The answer [...]

An ABA study on legal malpractice claims from several years ago found that the majority of money paid to plaintiffs involved cases with conflicts of interest. Conflicts allow the fact finder [...]