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Legal Malpractice
What to Do When You Would Like to Sue Your Attorney
If you are considering suing your attorney, a good first step is evaluating what went wrong. It is important to remember that just because you lost your case, that does not mean your attorney committed malpractice. To win on a malpractice claim, you need to prove that...
Attorney’s Fees Exceeding Damages? What You Can Do About It
Hearing that the cost of attorney’s fees exceeds damages can be incredibly frustrating. This is a challenging problem to remedy once you realize it exists. Most clients do not contemplate the possibility of attorney’s fees exceeding damages when signing a retainer...
Makarem & Associates Representing a Chino Resident in Sexual Harassment and Legal Malpractice Case
Makarem & Associates attorney Ron Makarem represent a single mother in an upcoming sexual harassment lawsuit against the woman’s former attorney. It is alleged that the defendant, Ronald J. Nolan, an attorney and principal at the Law Offices of Ronald J. Nolan,...
Makarem & Associates featured in Law360.com for legal malpractice case against The Bloom Firm
A Makarem & Associates case led by attorney Ron Makarem was recently featured in Law360.com for representing Koi Design LLC in a legal malpractice case against The Bloom Firm. Koi Design is a company popularly known for its fashion scrubs within the medical...
Law Firm Faces $24 Million Legal Malpractice Lawsuit From UCLA Professor
Big Law’s Seyfarth Shaw, along with a former partner of the firm, have been sued by Natalie Operstein, a linguistics professor at UCLA, for $24 million in compensatory damages and additional punitive damages. Operstein filed the suit over the firm’s investigation of...
Do You Have a Case For Legal Malpractice?
A lawyer-client relationship – typically built on a high level of confidentiality and trust – can turn acrimonious if you believe your lawyer provided substandard service in dealing with your case. In this situation, you have the option of formally suing your lawyer,...
Has My Attorney Breached a Duty of Care?
It is possible at times for clients to be dissatisfied with the outcome of their case or the way their attorney handled it throughout. But you may not always have grounds for a legal malpractice lawsuit even if you are unhappy with how things have gone with your case....
Napa County’s Bremer winery sues local law firm, alleging negligence
Bremer Family Winery is suing the local law firm that defended it in a Napa County code violations case that ended with a settlement the Bremers deem “unfavorable.” The lawsuit claims that Dickenson Peatman & Fogarty failed to adequately represent the Bremers,...
Makarem & Almon Featured in Advocate Journal
The State of the Law Since Cassel and a Proposal for Change California’s Evidence Code, as interpreted by the state’s Supreme Court, imposes sweeping protections on communications related to mediation. Its reach purportedly extends to communications that occur in the...
