When lawyers screw up : improving access to justice for legal malpractice victims /
"Unhappy clients bring thousands of legal malpractice claims every year, against both mega law firms and solo practitioners, for simple errors or egregious misconduct, and for losses than can reach $100 million or more. This industry, legal services, can generate nearly $300 billion a year in r...
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
2018
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Table of Contents:
- Illustrative cases of lawyers' professional liability
- Preliminary issues : insurance, bases of claims, important legal issues, and differences between medical professional liability and lawyers' professional liability
- Claims : rates, sources, and issues
- Resolving claims : lawsuits, claimant success, and payments
- Legal malpractice trials
- Processing lawyers' professional liability claims
- Improving access to justice for those harmed by the actions of their lawyers