Legal Malpractice
Legal Malpractice
The American Chronicle reports that each year more than 35,000 legal malpractice claims are filed against attorneys; 25 percent of these claims arise from personal injury cases.
Attorneys are trained and certified to meet certain expectations of competence and skill. When a lawyer makes a serious error, whether willful or not, and the client's case is flawed, lost, or awarded diminished compensation, the client has the right to collect damages for the lawyer's poor performance.
Our legal malpractice lawyers have handled many claims involving other attorneys' negligent or wrongful acts. You should not have to settle for an unfair return on your just claim as a result of your attorneys' actions; we can help you obtain the fair compensation that you should have received the first time around. Our legal malpractice lawyers, convenient to New York City, may litigate claims involving:
- Failure to know the substantive law
- Conflicts of interest (a lawyer putting his or her own interests above a client's or putting one client's interests above another's)
- Failure to secure a client's consent or to inform the client
- Administrative errors (clerical errors, missing a deadline set forth in the statute of limitations, procrastination)
- Insufficient discovery or investigation
- Intentional wrongdoing (libel, fraud, theft, malicious prosecution, and violation of civil rights)
The Elements of Legal Malpractice
Typically, to prevail in a legal malpractice case, our lawyers must prove:
- The existence of an attorney-client relationship,
- Negligence in the legal representation of the plaintiff,
- That the negligence was a sufficiently proximate cause of damage, and
- The existence and extent of the injury alleged.
If you have been the victim of legal malpractice, contact the lawyers at our New York City office. Our attorneys adhere to the highest standards of integrity and provide clients with unsurpassed personalized and aggressive representation. Do not let the actions of one incompetent or unscrupulous lawyer paint all attorneys in a negative light. We take our duty to preserve the constitutionally-protected legal rights of our clients very seriously. Allow us to fight on your behalf to ensure that justice is served.