Makarem & Associates attorneys Jared Walder and 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...
Legal Malpractice
Makarem & Associates featured in Law360.com for legal malpractice case against The Bloom Firm
A Makarem & Associates case led by attorneys Jared Walder and 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...
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...
Thinking of Filing a Legal Malpractice Case Against Your Lawyer?
So, you have lost what you thought was a winnable case. You think the blame squarely lies with your attorney, who you think was negligent in handling your case. Now, all you need to do is file a legal malpractice suit against your lawyer, sue him for damages, and...
California Legal Malpractice: The Case within a Case
Legal malpractice is a complex area of law to understand. In fact, many people consider launching a legal malpractice suit without actually knowing if they have the grounds for a case or not. In order to offer an insight into what legal malpractice actually is, we’re...
California Legal Malpractice: Preparing Your Case
If something that your attorney did, or did not do during your case lead to damages for you – for instance, your case being lost when it had every possibility of being won by a different attorney, then you might be well-positioned to put forward a case of legal...