Legal Malpractice Legal Questions

You cannot claim malpractice against an attorney that is not your attorney.  Your attorney should have given you any paper relevant to your case.  As the letter was not directly in the divorce case, it is a grey line on whether your attorney should have given you correspondence from another lawyer to her.  But, it is not malpractice as there are no damages that resulted.... Read More

You will typically have to hire a lawyer at some significant legal fee expense as anexpert to review the case and see what occured an provide a written opinion on the issue. Unfortunately, most people hire foreclosure lawyrs and pay very very little in legal fees and then get upset that the lawyers dont file Supreme Court appeals and spend tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees chasing various issues in the case they can't afford to fund disputes over. All of that has to be sorted out from what actually happened in the foreclosure process. ... Read More

I recommend that you promptly contact a medical malpractice plaintiffs' lawyer who practices in your area.  For help with your search, please follow the link below to the website of the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.  The specialty for you to search is Personal Injury Trial.  The list of names you find will include both plaintiffs' and defense lawyers.  To learn which ones are plaintiffs' lawyers who prosecute medical malpractice cases, you'll need to visit the websites of the listed lawyers. Good luck. www.tbls.org... Read More

I suggest that you contact a local professional liability plaintiffs' lawyer.  For help with finding one in your area, please follow the link below to the website of the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.  The two specialities to search are Personal Injury Trial and Civil Trial.   Good luck.   www.tbls.org... Read More

I am sorry for what happened to you. Unless you have any permanent damage as a result of what occurred in the hospital, it is doubtul the case is worth pursuing from a financial perspective. Medical malpractice cases are exceedingly difficult to pursue and win in Wisconsin. There are many reasons for that but the two chief reasons are (a) caps on non economic damages and (b) 9/10 jury verdicts are for the doctor in Wisconsin. I wrote a blog at our firm's web site on the difficulty of pursuing a medical malpractice case in Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel did an excellent essay about the subject about a year ago that you can google to read. If you feel strongly that you were harmed as a result of the medical care you received, you will need to gather up all your medical records and have them reviewed by a malpractice attorney. If they feel there is some substance to your case, they will have your records reviewed by an outside medical consultant to determine if you have a viable medical malpractice case. Under Wisconsin law, a person has three years to sue for medical malpractice from the date of the occurrence. For an injury to a minor child, the statute of limitations in Wisconsin is two years past the age of majority. You don't indicate how old you currently are. ... Read More

I have little doubt that was NOT the explanation provided by your laywer and no one would accept such a silly statement as a client even if a lawyer were to say something so absurd. Moreover, not sure what the damages would be if you actually entered into a settlement for some reason or other in the cause. If you seriously expect tp pursue such an issue you will need to spend money to retain a lawyer as an expert to review the file and determine if there was some level or malpractice or merit to your factual claim. ... Read More

I dont know any lawyers that charge flat rate for peicemeal attending deposition at such a low rate so there may well be issues in communication here unless this was a ministerial depo of an hour or less. There shoudl be a written contract,letter or some documentation about the retention and that would be critical to the issue. ... Read More

Dear Ms. Ballard - Patients are typically required to read and sign an informed consent agreement which provides that your care provider has informed you of the risks of the procedure. This does not mean you have agreed to the possibility of medical malpractice and does not prevent you from pursuing a claim. You share a very disturbing story and I would recommend at least obtaining a copy of your medical records for review by a medical malpractice lawyer. Please keep in mind that in Colorado there is a two year statute of limitations for medical malpractice claims, you must file your claim within two years of the malpractice or lose your right to do so.  Other time limitations may apply so you should act promptly.... Read More

You will have a difficult time getting any lawyer to take such a case on a contingent fee and the fees expended on a lawyer fighting over a fee dispute lawsuit with another lawyer may be counter-productive. That stated - since you are being sued - you will either have to hire a lawyer to handle that aspect at some expense, or magically become knowledgeable about handling litigation and trial matters, which typically is a severe disadvantage when a lawyer is on the other side.... Read More

This is no malpractice of any type. The doctor owes you no duty to protect you from an elderly person you have issues with. Your remedy would be to have the elderly person removed or evicted if she lived with you in your house. The other issue syou describe may be criminal and you would need to contact law enforcement for that.... Read More