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Texas Lawyer Sued for Missing Court Deadline (Legal Malpractice Post)

April 28th 2018

Missing a filing deadline is every lawyer’s nightmare. Sometimes the mistake can be fixed but not always. For example, it’s hard to sue a lawyer for legal malpractice if you hire him or her the day that a complaint or other filing is due. That apparently isn’t the case in a recent...

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California Rules Against Law Firm that Allegedly Hid Malpractice

March 18th 2018

Lawyers make mistakes. All professionals do. Whether you are a doctor, accountant, engineer or lawyer, at some point in your career you will make a mistake.
Dropping the ball and missing a deadline, giving bad advice or making some other mistake probably isn’t a bar violation but it is...

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Pennsylvania Accounting Malpractice – Accountant Botches Audit

February 28th 2018

Louis Arnold is a Philadelphia personal injury lawyer. Like many small professional practices, Arnold concentrated on helping clients and left the finances to a bookkeeper.
For years, Arnold relied on a bookkeeper to pay taxes, collect money, and make sure the bills were paid. Way back in...

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Malpractice Lawyer Misses Deadline, Accused of Legal Malpractice

January 8th 2018

This is every client’s worst nightmare. The lawyer you hire botches the job forcing you to hire a legal malpractice lawyer. And then the malpractice lawyer misses a deadline. Legal malpractice squared. Frankly, we haven’t encountered this set of facts until now.
Every lawyer...

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Lawyer Fails to “Get the Basics” of Practicing Law – Legal Malpractice

December 28th 2017

We see dozens of legal malpractice claims each year. Some involve missed deadlines, others reflect poor business practices and others are more sinister; theft of client monies for example. And then there is the case in Washington D.C. of a lawyer who can’t even get “the basics of...

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