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http://www.texaslegalmalpractice.com/ - Legal malpractice is generally referred to as negligence committed by an attorney, it can occur in any area of the law and can take many forms such as simple negligence, gross negligence, negligence per se, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and, in Texas, violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. The Kassab Law Firm is a full service boutique law firm concentrating solely on plaintiff’s legal malpractice law. We fight for your rights and hold attorneys and their firms responsible for the wrongs that they have committed whether it is negligent or intentional conduct.
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Although legal malpractice is generally referred to as negligence committed by an attorney, it can occur in any area of the law and can take many forms such as simple negligence, gross negligence, negligence per se, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and, in Texas, violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
Clients can be damaged by lawyers in many ways such as: - Neglect -missing a statute of limitation, failing to conduct and respond to discovery, failing to designate experts and/or proper witnesses - Lawyer’s conflict of interest-putting the lawyer’s interests above a client’s or putting one client’s interest over another client’s interest - Drafting errors in documents and/or agreements
The most common types of mistakes are: - Failure to know the substantive law - Failure to get a client’s consent or to inform theclient regarding material facts - Failure to calendar events properly - Not knowing or observing material deadlines - Insufficient discovery and/or investigation - Failure to properly designate experts - Failure to properly designate material fact witnesses - Failure to diligently pursue the client’s case
Legal malpractice can also occur through intentional acts such as: - Not following the client instructions or improperly withdrawing from the representation - Conflicts/greed - Wrongs such as libel, civil rights, fraud, theft, malicious prosecution
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