Editor’s Note: “Kathleen” is the name her children chose to protect her identity and honor the legacy of a woman deeply loved in the Los Gatos community. Her story, intertwined with that of Richard, a ...

Winning at the blame game is difficult to do. This holds especially true where the “blame game” is actually a claim for legal malpractice. After defendants moved to dismiss the complaint, the lower ...

This article catalogues the four elements and sub-elements of legal malpractice as an attempted guide to the analysis of whether any particular legal outcome is legal malpractice and whether it can be ...

The duty of confidentiality is one of the cornerstones of the legal profession, and lawyers have always faced civil liability and disciplinary exposure for violating that duty. But modern attorneys ...

The American Bar Association reports that four out of five lawyers will get sued for malpractice at some point in their career. Seventy percent of malpractice claims are filed against small firms of ...