Law Practice,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Sep. 14, 2018
Emotional distress damages and lawyer causation
When it comes to legal malpractice cases, there's rumor going around that "emotional distress damages" actually exist.
Diane L. Karpman
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Diane is a legal ethics expert (expert witness and State Bar defense), she is a certified specialist in legal malpractice.
There is a new case of professional responsibility that is the talk of the ethics community: Knutson v. Foster; 2018 DJDAR 7891 (Cal. App. 4th Dist. Aug. 8, 2018). It provides some answers to an age-old problem, and raises a number of new questions.
A world-class swimmer, sued her former lawyer for "fraudulent concealment and intentional breach of fiduciary duty." The trial cour...
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