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State Bar & Bar Associations,
Law Practice

Oct. 26, 2018

Mandatory malpractice insurance in the works?

The State Bar formed a working group to study mandatory malpractice insurance earlier this year, but not many attorneys know what the group is up to. And the bar’s request for public comment doesn’t provide many answers.

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."

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As I discussed in a previous column ("Is mandatory malpractice insurance coming to California?" Sept. 28, 2018), the State Bar of California's Malpractice Insurance Working Group has asked for public comments "on the options under consideration" for mandating or encouraging lawyers to buy minim...

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