Legal Malpractice

Our attorneys have been representing lawyers facing charges of negligence or ethical violations for more than 40 years. Our representation has included sole practitioners and large law firms, and our work has placed us before state and federal trial courts throughout the 18 counties in the western district of Pennsylvania and in the state and federal appellate courts. We have successfully defended over 600 actions in an extremely broad range of claims, and it is likely that no firm in our area has been more active or more successful in legal malpractice cases. We have advised managing partners and general counsel of many of the major law firms in our region on a variety of actual and potential liability issues. In addition, our attorneys have acted on behalf of insurance carriers in a "claims repair" capacity on pre-suit matters and have provided coverage opinions for insurers.

Because the rules of law and standards of causation are different in legal malpractice, it is a specialized niche where experience truly matters. Consequently, our attorneys have lectured and written extensively on the subject of legal malpractice prevention for bar associations, insurance carriers and for private engagements by law firms.

Representative Cases
Represented hundreds of lawyers charged with professional negligence in connection with all types of matters ranging from administrative (governmental) law to zoning issues.

Represented individual lawyers and law firms in cases involving complex patent issues, complex commercial financing transactions, major real estate acquisitions, sales and financings, bankruptcy, taxation, antitrust and personal injury cases.

Filed briefs on behalf of the Pennsylvania Bar Association as amicus curiae in important legal malpractice cases before the Pennsylvania appellate courts.

Handled cases of first impression in the trial and appellate courts in Pennsylvania and have successfully argued and prevailed in establishing sound principles of legal malpractice law in the appellate courts.
 

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