A Veteran Nashville Attorney Handling Legal Malpractice Claims
My expertise is in evaluating and prosecuting legal malpractice cases involving personal injury and wrongful death claims. I do not handle legal malpractice claims arising from criminal prosecutions or defense or domestic relations (divorce cases).
Here is why legal malpractice is more difficult and challenging than most other cases. In legal malpractice cases, you must prove two cases. First, your underlying case - meaning, if your lawyer didn't screw up, what would you have recovered? Second, you must prove that your lawyer's representation fell below professional standards. Every bad result in a case is not legal malpractice, in fact it's relatively rare. However, it does happen.
There are various complicated considerations in these cases. Virtually all legal malpractice cases require expert proof to establish the standard of care and prove that it was breached. Also, even where there is legal malpractice which kept you from winning a certain judgment in court, you must further prove that that judgment would have been collectible. If you could not have recovered any money from the persons or companies you were suing because they had no insurance or assets, you cannot collect money damages from your attorney. The underlying judgment would have to have been collectible in some way.
I am one of the few attorneys in Middle Tennessee willing to take on other lawyers in legal malpractice claims.
If you have concerns about your lawyer, just don't think your claim is proceeding properly, has been delayed, ignored or otherwise screwed up … contact attorney Robert L. Whitaker to discuss the likely outcome of a legal malpractice suit or other courses of action.
Remember, you also have the right to change lawyers at virtually any time.
