Fiduciary duties: breach and damages
Lawyers owe fiduciary duties to their clients on top of their legal duties. These duties are (1) complete candor or honesty with the client (and others, where required!); (2) the utmost loyalty [...]
Why did my divorce cost so much?
Malpractice cases hinge upon the lawyer doing something incorrectly, or failing to do something that they should have done, and a resulting damage that flowed from that negligent act. We get [...]
Damages in a legal malpractice action
A claimant needs three things for a viable legal malpractice case. First, there must be an attorney-client relationship. Second, the lawyer must have breached their duties owed to the client. And [...]
Defending legal malpractice claims
Professional liability claims—whether against lawyers, doctors, accountants, engineers, or any other professionals—are, generally speaking, negligence claims based on typical tort negligence [...]
Damages in Breach of Fiduciary Duty Cases
In addition to legal duties, lawyers owe fiduciary duties to their clients. Those fiduciary duties are the duties of (1) complete candor or honesty with the client (and others, where required!); [...]