Professional malpractice cases are among the most sensitive complex civil disputes, and we treat these cases with the care they merit.

 

We represent law firms.  We take great pride in the fact that other law firms look to us for representation.  We have represented law firms as plaintiffs and as defendants in matters related to public scandals, partnership divorces, and alleged illegal harassment, breach of fiduciary duty, defamation, and malpractice. Representing law firm clients is a distinct honor.

 

We represent plaintiffs in legal malpractice cases only when the underlying error involved “black letter” law.  Practicing law sometimes results in a client dispute and allegations of professional negligence.  We examine each case of alleged professional negligence painstakingly.  We determine whether an error occurred and, if so, whether the error was due to ignoring a basic legal requirement, such as forgetting to include a warranty in an agreement, missing a deadline, misrepresenting the applicable law, or something similar.

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Representative Matter:  One complex legal malpractice case involved our client, an international consortium of scientific research entities.  Our client’s former attorneys, (the Chicago office of a national law firm), represented the client in its acquisition of a Georgia company.  Three lawsuits between the parties to the acquisition followed, during which material mistakes in the acquisition deal documents harmful to our client came to light.

 

Our client’s former law firm sued our client for unpaid attorney fees in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.  Our client asserted professional negligence counterclaims.  We moved to transfer the case to the U.S. District Court for Northern District of Georgia and apply Illinois law.  We prevailed after an 18-month battle.  The transfer proved worth the battle.  Our firm secured a seven-figure settlement for our client and avoided its incurring the significant legal costs of trial.