Legal Malpractice

 

There are about 80,000 lawyers in Florida.  Not all of them are diligent, careful, well trained and experienced. If a lawyer is hired to handle a legal problem and fails to represent the client appropriately and the client suffers injury, the lawyer and the law firm are responsible. The failure to act reasonably in the course of representing a client is called legal malpractice.

We have handled many legal malpractice cases. They are difficult cases because lawyers and the insurance companies that insure them vigorously resist those claims. To pursue these claims successfully, the lawyer representing the insured client must be tenacious and experienced.

 

One of our more notable results in this area involves our representation of a class of investors against a major Wall Street law firm in a securities class action case. After many years of litigation, the law firm’s insurance company paid $10,000,000 in settlement.

Legal Malpractice Representative Cases:

 

• Walco lnvestments v. Thenen

• Winton v. Barrett