• Legal malpractice is the term for negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, or breach of contract by a lawyer during the provision of legal services that...
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  • medical specialty would provide under the circumstances. lawyers: a legal malpractice claim may be brought against a lawyer who fails to render services...
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    Medical malpractice is a legal cause of action that occurs when a medical or health care professional, through a negligent act or omission, deviates from...
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  • Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics addresses legal malpractice and ethics issues that impact the daily work of legal practitioners. The St. Mary's...
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    Undue influence (category Legal doctrines and principles)
    years. Legal malpractice in trusts and estates is now considered to have the highest risk of exposure, representing 12% of all legal malpractice claims...
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    Paralegal (redirect from Legal assistant)
    is typically no legal liability on the part of the paralegal service and that such institutions cannot be sued for legal malpractice. Again, the philosophy...
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  • is called medical malpractice and the insuring contract is called malpractice insurance. The negligent act is called legal malpractice and the insuring...
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  • Assignment (law) (category Legal terminology)
    between the parties to the contract. For example, the assignment of a legal malpractice claim is void since an assignee would be a stranger to the attorney-client...
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  • Attorney misconduct (category Legal ethics)
    protected discovery documents defying a judge's protective order. Legal malpractice is a separate concept such as when an attorney fails to adequately...
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  • Kangaroo court (category Abuse of the legal system)
    legitimate judicial authority, but which intentionally disregards the court's legal or ethical obligations (compare show trial). A kangaroo court could also...
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    Sharp charged his former bandmates with breach of fiduciary duty, legal malpractice, dissolution of partnership, and declaratory relief. The lawsuit was...
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  • Times (October 20, 2016). Brendan O'Flaherty & Rajiv Sethi, Witness Intimidation, Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 39, No. 2 (June 2010), pp. 399-432....
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    multimillion-dollar judgment awarded to Day in her suit against him for legal malpractice and upheld the conclusions of a trial court and an appeals court that...
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    24, 2017). "Judge gives go-ahead to 'RHONJ' star Teresa Giudice's legal malpractice lawsuit". NJ.com. Retrieved April 20, 2017. Vulpo, Mike (June 15,...
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  • setbacks, Viner and Raffin sold Dove in 1997, and later obtained a large legal malpractice judgment against their own lawyers relating to this transaction, but...
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    December 17, 2020. "Sister of Philadelphia Phillies owner alleges legal malpractice against firm which represented her in family inheritance battle"....
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  • million to settle legal malpractice claims stemming from its representation of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association. Such legal work was profiled...
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  • especially vulnerable due to the nature of a circumstance (e.g. medical or legal malpractice). The BGB makes specific provisions for several different categories...
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  • of a crime may not sue their defence attorney for incompetence or legal malpractice if the civil lawsuit would call into question the finality of the...
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  • Medical malpractice is professional negligence by act or omission by a health care provider in which the treatment provided falls below the accepted standard...
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    Hussein without a congressional authorization. Berg was sued for legal malpractice by former clients on whose behalf Berg had neglected to file a response...
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  • full-service attorneys handle all aspects of a case and can be liable for legal malpractice should they be negligent in their representation of clients. Critics...
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    except in the case of liability for acts of professional negligence or malpractice. In some states, LLPs may only be formed for purposes of practicing a...
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  • to the demise of Gerontix. Gerontix subsequently brought suit for legal malpractice against the attorneys whom Gerontix had hired to obtain the trademark...
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  • Outline of tort law (category Outlines of laws and legal topics)
    causing harm to the claimant. Common varieties include medical malpractice and legal malpractice Negligence per se – Conduct which by its very nature gives...
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    Medical law (redirect from Medico-legal)
    law. Branches of medical law include: the law of torts (i.e. medical malpractice). criminal law in relation to medical practice and treatment. the ethics...
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  • A legal guardian is a person who has been appointed by a court or otherwise has the legal authority (and the corresponding duty) to make decisions relevant...
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  • did not appear or respond to the 20-day summons and complaint for a legal malpractice case. There was no appeal. Jennifer is still waiting for payment from...
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  • Boston Legal is an American legal drama-comedy (dramedy) created by David E. Kelley, which was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television...
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  • fall under the umbrella of health law include: Contract law Medical malpractice Medical law Administrative law Public health law Consent In the U.S....
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