Ethics/Professional Responsibility,
Law Practice
Jan. 25, 2014
2013 year in review: notable decisions affecting lawyers, Part 2
In Part 2 of this two-part series, we review several cases affecting legal malpractice claims, conflict cases, and other claims against lawyers by third parties.
Kenneth C. Feldman
Partner
Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP
Certified Specialist in Legal Malpractice
633 W 5th St Ste 4000
Los Angeles , CA 90071
Phone: (213) 250-1800
Fax: (213) 250-7900
Email: Ken.Feldman@lewisbrisbois.com
Loyola Law School
Kenneth is firm-wide chair of the legal malpractice defense group at Lewis Brisbois. He is a certified specialist, legal malpractice law, State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization, and is vice chair of the State Bar Legal Malpractice Law Advisory Commission. Mr. Feldman is the author of "California Legal Malpractice & Malicious Prosecution Liability Handbook."
Alex A. Graft
Partner
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP
Email: alex.graft@lewisbrisbois.com
Alex is a certified specialist in legal malpractice law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. He represents a wide range of professionals in addition to defending lawyers.
As we began to detail last week in this space, 2013 brought a steady stream of important appellate decisions with implications for lawyers confronted with a lawsuit, whether for malpractice, malicious prosecution, or a wide array of other associated claims. In Part 2 of this two-part series surveying the decisions issued this past year affecting lawyers, particularly those who have been sued (Part 1 was published Jan. 17), we look at cases examining the preclusion against assigning malpr...
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