When you hire an attorney to represent you in a legal controversy, you expect and deserve fair, effective and intelligent service. Indeed, your relationship with this legal professional transcends almost every other business relationship you have ever had. If your attorney fails in his/her responsibility to you, you can sustain significant losses. If that occurs you can expect a remedy from the justice system.
To prevail in a legal malpractice case, a claimant must prove a number of things, including:
The existence of an attorney-client relationship;
Negligence in the legal representation of the claimant;
A causal relationship between your loss and the attorney’s negligence;
A financial loss.
The most common types of mistakes attorneys make include:
A failure to know the substantive law;
A failure to comply with a deadline;
A failure to inform a client or obtain a client’s consent;
A failure to calendar events;
A failure to adequately conduct appropriate discovery/investigation.
Frank T. Luciano has litigated a number of successful legal malpractice cases involving significant claims where his adversaries have some of the best legal malpractice defense lawyers in the state.