How do I find a legal malpractice lawyer? It may well be the easiest way is to check with friends or relatives. See if they have ever used a lawyer for pursuing a legal malpractice case. If they have then inquire as to the nature of the experience. If those friends or relatives recommend an attorney then your first course of action should be to contact that attorney. Hopefully that moves you along in answering the question of how do I find a legal malpractice lawyer.
How Do I Find A Legal Malpractice Attorney-Lawyers.com
There are a number of referral sources that are otherwise available. An excellent source is a website that is run by a company known as Martindale Hubbell. That website is lawyers.com.
Once at that website you can key in the geographical locale and legal specialty you are interested in. A number of lawyers and law firms should come up on the results page. The advantage of using the Martindale Hubbell website is that this company is the premier lawyer rating service in the country. Their rating system is a peer rating system. That means that you have lawyers in the community who are rating other lawyers in that same community. The ratings are A, B, C. An A rating is the best. This rating system is not foolproof but it is the best rating system out there. Martindale Hubbell reports that no more than 10% of the attorneys are given an A rating.
There are also some popular publications that reference superlawyers. The superlawyers publication is an advertisement. I have periodically looked at that publication and indeed most of the lawyers in there are very fine attorneys.
If you’re not satisfied with what you find in Martindale Hubbell then of course you can go to any of the search engines and key in your own search inquiry.
Most local bar associations also have lawyer referral services that frequently are quite good. Call, or contact us for a free consult.
How Do I Find A Legal Malpractice Lawyer-Experience Counts
Once you have focused on one or more attorneys that you think may be appropriate you should interview each of them and feel free to ask whatever questions you have.
There are not that many attorneys who have tried a large number of legal malpractice cases. Although I have handled many such cases I have never tried a legal malpractice case to conclusion. I like to think that is because I exercise good judgment in screening cases. Also I try to exercise good judgment in picking clients and good judgment in how I’m going to approach the case. It’s been my experience over the years, with one exception, that where attorneys have committed malpractice they admit it. They step up to the plate and pay what is due. I can’t say that that is true with my experience in medical malpractice cases. In this area doctors will fight the patient’s claim tooth and nail. Even if their liability may be clear.
How many legal malpractice cases a lawyer has tried to conclusion I do not believe should be your criterion for picking a lawyer. Any attorney who handles these types of cases knows that they are probably the most difficult of all the forms of litigation that exist. Within a legal malpractice case involving litigation you have to prove the case within the case. Then you have to prove the case itself i.e. the legal malpractice. Likewise some attorneys who handle legal malpractice cases do not fully appreciate the significant burden that exist as to causation. As explained elsewhere on this site that hurdle can be significant.
There are several other blogs on this site dealing with different aspects of legal malpractice:
- who to sue
- proving relationship
- substandard behavior
- causation damages
- statute of limitations
- case within case
Call, or contact us for a free consult.For more information on how do I find a legal malpractice lawyer and legal malpractice in general see the other pages on this site. Also see the pages on Wikipedia.
