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Contact The Dunnion Law Firm for a legal malpractice lawyer serving all of California including Fresno, Modesto, and beyond.
The Dunnion Law Firm
Unfortunately, not all lawyers are as effective as those at The Dunnion Law Firm. Legal malpractice – also known as lawyer negligence – can severely damage or ruin the cases of many residents of California, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Fresno, and Modesto, who otherwise would have strong cases and deserve swift, significant payment for their injuries. Call us at 1-800-DUNNION to learn more: those who have lost valuable time and money because of unqualified, uncommitted, or incompetent legal representation may be able to sue their previous lawyers for legal malpractice in order to regain the valuable claim that was recklessly snatched away from them.
All lawyers are obligated to handle each client's case with the standard of care and ethics expected in the community. Like medical malpractice, legal malpractice involves professional conduct that does not meet the accepted standards of quality. When a lawyer's work does not measure up to the standards required or mistakes are made which causes a client’s case to have reduced value or no value at all, The Dunnion Law Firm will step in to make sure that the negligent lawyer makes up for the loss they have caused to their former client – now victim. The lawyers at The Dunnion Law Firm have the experience, knowledge and tenacity necessary to evaluate the damages caused by the former negligent attorney and to aggressively take whatever actions are required to recover a lump-sum cash settlement from the attorney, or their insurance company, that fully compensates the client for the full value of their former claim.
Legal malpractice can take many forms, but all of them involve a lawyer’s poor-quality work that has damaged a client’s case, costing them money. Damage to the client’s case may be caused through neglect – for instance, missing a legal deadline set out in the statute of limitations or failing to designate witnesses for trial in a timely fashion. Missing certain legal deadlines can be absolutely fatal to a case causing the original client claim/case to be rendered valueless. A conflict of interest might arise, causing the lawyer to put one client’s case ahead of another’s unfairly. Administrative errors, including clerical and drafting mistakes in the creation of documents, are possible, as is simply failing to know or understand relevant laws. Failure to know the substantive law, failure to obtain a client’s consent or to inform, and insufficient discovery of the events or facts of a case are other forms of lawyer negligence which can result in legal malpractice. Worst of all are the cases in which lawyers deliberately mislead or defraud their clients. An expert legal malpractice lawyer from our firm serving all of California including Fresno, Modesto, and Los Angeles will handle legal malpractice negotiations as quickly as possible, putting money in the client's pocket to cover urgent expenses.
Though legal malpractice insurance exists, not every lawyer chooses to pay for it. Of the thousands of lawyers who practice across the United States, it is estimated that only 60 percent have malpractice insurance. Unlike physicians who are required to be financially responsible for their mistakes, lawyers are not. And, lawyers are under no obligation to have malpractice insurance or to discuss the lack of it with clients. Further, even if a lawyer does have insurance, his/her policy likely will not cover fraud, theft, or any other intentional act. If a client of The Dunnion Law Firm brings a legal malpractice suit against a lawyer with no insurance, it will take persistence and aggressive handling on our part to recover a fair settlement. When lawyers do have malpractice insurance, the insurance company that holds the policy will always do everything possible to withhold, minimize or delay making any payments. To pry a cash settlement from the malpractice insurance company requires the forceful, effective tactics that are our specialty. Insurance companies never want to pay what is fair, but we at The Dunnion Law Firm force them to do so. Insurance bad faith is not acceptable or tolerated, and our clients need not give in. We let insurance companies know from the beginning that we expect to win big to compensate for the gross wrongdoings committed by their insured, the attorney. They know from our established reputation that there will be a large price to pay.
If your case has been damaged by substandard legal representation, you need quality help fast. Contact a legal malpractice lawyer at the Dunnion Law Firm, serving all of California including Fresno, Modesto, and Los Angeles to explore your options.