When lawyers screw up : improving access to justice for legal malpractice victims / Herbert M. Kritzer and Neil Vidmar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kritzer, Herbert M., 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lawyers--Malpractice--United States.

Lawyers.

Attorney and client--United States.

Attorney and client.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2018]

Summary:

"A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of claims of malpractice by lawyers in the United States. This study contributes greatly to our understanding of not only the way LPL claims are handled, but also to larger debates about malpractice and civil justice."--Law and Politics Book Review "Kritzer and Vidmar's fine book is a welcome antidote to the 'scant attention' that has traditionally been paid by empirical research to legal malpractice litigation. This work of scholarship will be useful to those who think and write about the subject of lawyer professional liability."-St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics.

Contents:

Illustrative cases of lawyers' professional liability

Preliminary issues : insurance, bases of claims, important legal issues, and differences between medical professional liability and lawyers' professional liability

Claims : rates, sources, and issues

Resolving claims : lawsuits, claimant success, and payments

Legal malpractice trials

Processing lawyers' professional liability claims

Improving access to justice for those harmed by the actions of their lawyers.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7006-2586-0

OCLC:

1030913629