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Can a lawyer's pattern of "own goals" constitute malpractice?
If your lawyer repeatedly makes mistakes or other actions that tend to benefit the other side (this was not a one time thing), even if it stemmed from incompetence, could that constitute malpractice, or …
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What constitutes legal malpractice? What are the remedies?
Does this constitute legal malpractice, and if so, what are the remedies? These questions relate to New York State. …
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How/when do the parties know that a contract is a "go?"
This is a followup to this question, in which the seller's attorney was tasked with tracking the fulfillment of four preconditions that needed to be cleared. Is the lawyer supposed to give an "all cle …
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What role, if any, would unethical behavior play in a malpractice case?
Would the unethical behavior count against the lawyer, or aggravate the gravity of the poor result in a malpractice case? …
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Is there a difference in a lawyer's culpability between "negative" and "positve"malpractice?
By "negative" malpractice, I mean sins of omission, such as missing a deadline, or omitting a key document from a filing. … By "positive" malpractice, I mean a sin of commission, such as misrepresenting information or manufacturing evidence. …
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To what extent is a lawyer guilty of malpractice for material misrepresentations to a client...
Normally, malpractice is not held against the lawyer unless the client wins the underlying case against the company. …