Legal Malpractice Lawyers at The Kassab Law Firm

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Although legal malpractice is generally referred
to as negligence committed by an attorney, it can
occur in any area of the law and can take many
forms such as simple negligence, gross
negligence, negligence per se, breach of
contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and,
in Texas, violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade
Practices Act.
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Clients can be damaged by lawyers in many ways
such as
- Neglect -missing a statute of limitation,
failing to conduct and respond to discovery,
failing to designate experts and/or proper
witnesses - Lawyers conflict of
interest-putting the lawyers interests above a
clients or putting one clients interest over
another clients interest - Drafting errors in
documents and/or agreements
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The most common types of mistakes are
- Failure to know the substantive law - Failure
to get a clients consent or to inform theclient
regarding material facts - Failure to calendar
events properly - Not knowing or observing
material deadlines - Insufficient discovery
and/or investigation - Failure to properly
designate experts - Failure to properly designate
material fact witnesses - Failure to diligently
pursue the clients case
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Legal malpractice can also occur through
intentional acts such as
- Not following the client instructions or
improperly withdrawing from the representation -
Conflicts/greed - Wrongs such as libel, civil
rights, fraud, theft, malicious prosecution
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Address 1420 Alabama Houston, Texas 77004 Phone
713-522-7400 Website www.texaslegalmalpractice.co
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