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Law Practice,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility,
Civil Litigation

Jan. 8, 2021

Year in review 2020: cases involving lawyers

Review trends in cases against lawyers in 2020; MCLE credit available.

Kenneth C. Feldman

Partner
Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Certified Specialist in Legal Malpractice

633 W 5th St Ste 4000
Los Angeles , CA 90071

Phone: (213) 250-1800

Fax: (213) 250-7900

Email: Ken.Feldman@lewisbrisbois.com

Loyola Law School

Kenneth is firm-wide chair of the legal malpractice defense group at Lewis Brisbois. He is a certified specialist, legal malpractice law, State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization, and is vice chair of the State Bar Legal Malpractice Law Advisory Commission. Mr. Feldman is the author of "California Legal Malpractice & Malicious Prosecution Liability Handbook."

Alex A. Graft

Partner
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Email: alex.graft@lewisbrisbois.com

Alex is a certified specialist in legal malpractice law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. He represents a wide range of professionals in addition to defending lawyers.

"Disruption" is a word that comes to mind when we look back on this past year, and while the appellate courts were not spared (oral argument via BlueJeans became commonplace), they nevertheless managed to address a number of familiar issues affecting lawyers as defendants, issuing opinions addressing the statute of limitations, causation and malicious prosecution claims, particularly in the context of anti-SLAPP motions. Sanctions against lawyers and fee splitting wer...

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