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2. Legal malpractice - Wikipedia

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   Legal malpractice is the term for negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, or breach of contract by a lawyer during the provision of legal services that causes harm to a client. [ 1 ] Examples

3. Malpractice - Wikipedia

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   For example, to sue a lawyer for malpractice the person bringing the claim must have had an attorney-client relationship with the lawyer. [ 4 ] To succeed in a malpractice action under typical malpractice law, the person making a malpractice claim must prove that the professional committed an act of culpable negligence and that the person ...

4. Entire Controversy Doctrine Can Bar Legal Malpractice Claim ...

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5. Tort - Wikipedia

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   Comparative negligence is a partial legal defence that reduces the amount of damages that a plaintiff can recover in a negligence-based claim based upon the degree to which the plaintiff's own negligence contributed to cause the injury, which progressively displaced the erstwhile traditional doctrine of contributory negligence over the ...

6. Common Defenses for Fighting Legal Malpractice Claims - AOL

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7. Attorney misconduct - Wikipedia

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   Attorney misconduct is unethical or illegal conduct by an attorney. Attorney misconduct may include: conflict of interest, overbilling, false or misleading statements, knowingly pursuing frivolous and meritless lawsuits, concealing evidence, abandoning a client, failing to disclose all relevant facts, arguing a position while neglecting to disclose prior law which might counter the argument ...

8. CMC wants two wrongful-death lawsuits dismissed - AOL

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   Sep. 4—Lawyers for Catholic Medical Center want two wrongful-death lawsuits connected to the work of a former cardiovascular surgeon dismissed, claiming the suits were filed well past the ...

9. Contributory negligence - Wikipedia

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   The doctrine of contributory negligence was dominant in U.S. jurisprudence in the 19th and 20th century. [3] The English case Butterfield v.Forrester is generally recognized as the first appearance, although in this case, the judge held the plaintiff's own negligence undermined their argument that the defendant was the proximate cause of the injury. [3]