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2. Legal malpractice - Wikipedia

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   Under U.S. law, in order to rise to an actionable level of negligence (an actual breach of a legal duty of care), the injured party must show that the attorney's acts were not merely the result of poor strategy, but that they were the result of errors that no reasonably prudent attorney would make. While the elements of a cause of action for ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

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6. Abuse of process - Wikipedia

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   An abuse of process is the unjustified or unreasonable use of legal proceedings or process to further a cause of action by an applicant or plaintiff in an action. It is a claim made by the respondent or defendant that the other party is misusing or perverting regularly issued court process (civil or criminal) not justified by the underlying legal action.

7. Frivolous litigation - Wikipedia

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   Frivolous litigation is the use of legal processes with apparent disregard for the merit of one's own arguments. It includes presenting an argument with reason to know that it would certainly fail, or acting without a basic level of diligence in researching the relevant law and facts.

8. Negligent infliction of emotional distress - Wikipedia

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   Because of this substantial uncertainty, most legal theorists find the theory to be unworkable in practice. A corollary of this critique is that the tort runs the risk (in the bystander NIED context) of overcompensating plaintiffs for distress which would have occurred anyway regardless of the cause of death of the decedent.

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   Even if Amendment 3 modified Missouri’s mandatory reporting laws ... If abortion becomes legal again in Missouri, the laws ... Amendment 3 would remove patients’ ability to sue for malpractice ...