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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
ISBN-10
0700625852
ISBN-13
9780700625857
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240319981
Product Key Features
Book Title
When Lawyers Screw Up : Improving Access to Justice for Legal Malpractice Victims
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Legal Profession, Torts, Malpractice, Criminal Law / General
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Yes
Genre
Law
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.3 in
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2017-052559
Reviews
" When Lawyers Screw Up helps us better understand how lawyers err and how, as a profession, we can provide better access to justice to those who lawyers harm."-- Jotwell "A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of claims of malpractice by lawyers in the United States. This study contributes greatly to our understanding of not only the way LPL claims are handled, but also to larger debates about malpractice and civil justice."-- Law and Politics Book Review "Kritzer and Vidmar's fine book is a welcome antidote to the 'scant attention' that has traditionally been paid by empirical research to legal malpractice litigation. This work of scholarship will be useful to those who think and write about the subject of lawyer professional liability."-- St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics, " When Lawyers Screw Up is the first comprehensive look at lawyer malpractice: what it is, why it happens, and what victims can do about it. Kritzer and Vidmar bring their unique combination of disciplinary expertise (political science, psychology, and law) to bear on a vital problem about which we previously had only fragmentary information. They analyze how insurance shapes claims and recoveries, the economics of litigation, why responses to legal and medical malpractice are so different, and how we could make remedies more accessible. This book will be essential reading for students of the legal profession--and for anyone who has been injured by lawyer negligence."-- Richard L. Abel , Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and distinguished research professor, UCLA "This is the book on legal malpractice that needed to be written. It is the first book to provide a thorough discussion of legal malpractice in America and its implications for the public. The authors provide a wealth of new information about legal malpractice claims, the lawyers and litigants in the process, and the role of malpractice insurance in compensating victims. It's a must-read for anyone interested in the real story of legal malpractice."-- Leslie C. Levin , Joel Barlow Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law "This is a fantastic piece of scholarship. Kritzer and Vidmar weave disparate and limited empirical research on legal malpractice together with their own independent work to tell a compelling story about legal malpractice, legal malpractice claims, and the limited effect those claims have on the practice of law. The authors found any and all available empirical data and used it thoroughly to describe the legal malpractice landscape. Further, the authors use independent experimental and qualitative research to expand their argument regarding the nature of malpractice trials and malpractice claims."-- Rick Swedloff , professor of law, Rutgers Law School "This comprehensive and systematic empirical study of lawyers' professional liability is the first book to explore an important but woefully neglected topic. Skillfully mining every data source they could find, Kritzer and Vidmar provide a valuable resource for lawyers, social scientists, and policymakers. Especially noteworthy is the book's comparative analysis of legal malpractice and medical malpractice as well as its argument for requiring lawyers to carry malpractice insurance. By raising crucial questions about legal malpractice based on the limited data available, the authors have opened up a new field of research on lawyers' accountability and access to justice for victims of lawyers' misconduct."-- Lynn Mather , coauthor of Divorce Lawyers at Work: Varieties of Professionalism in Practice, "A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of claims of malpractice by lawyers in the United States. This study contributes greatly to our understanding of not only the way LPL claims are handled, but also to larger debates about malpractice and civil justice."-- Law and Politics Book Review "Kritzer and Vidmar's fine book is a welcome antidote to the 'scant attention' that has traditionally been paid by empirical research to legal malpractice litigation. This work of scholarship will be useful to those who think and write about the subject of lawyer professional liability."-- St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics, " When Lawyers Screw Up helps us better understand how lawyers err and how, as a profession, we can provide better access to justice to those who lawyers harm."-- Jotwell "A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of claims of malpractice by lawyers in the United States. This study contributes greatly to our understanding of not only the way LPL claims are handled, but also to larger debates about malpractice and civil justice."Law and Politics Book Review "Kritzer and Vidmars fine book is a welcome antidote to the scant attentionthat has traditionally been paid by empirical research to legal malpractice litigation. This work of scholarship will be useful to those who think and write about the subject of lawyer professional liability."St. Marys Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics, When Lawyers Screw Up is the first comprehensive look at lawyer malpractice: what it is, why it happens, and what victims can do about it. Kritzer and Vidmar bring their unique combination of disciplinary expertise (political science, psychology, and law) to bear on a vital problem about which we previously had only fragmentary information. They analyze how insurance shapes claims and recoveries, the economics of litigation, why responses to legal and medical malpractice are so different, and how we could make remedies more accessible. This book will be essential reading for students of the legal profession--and for anyone who has been injured by lawyer negligence.-- Richard L. Abel , Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and distinguished research professor, UCLA This is the book on legal malpractice that needed to be written. It is the first book to provide a thorough discussion of legal malpractice in America and its implications for the public. The authors provide a wealth of new information about legal malpractice claims, the lawyers and litigants in the process, and the role of malpractice insurance in compensating victims. It's a must-read for anyone interested in the real story of legal malpractice.-- Leslie C. Levin , Joel Barlow Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law This is a fantastic piece of scholarship. Kritzer and Vidmar weave disparate and limited empirical research on legal malpractice together with their own independent work to tell a compelling story about legal malpractice, legal malpractice claims, and the limited effect those claims have on the practice of law. The authors found any and all available empirical data and used it thoroughly to describe the legal malpractice landscape. Further, the authors use independent experimental and qualitative research to expand their argument regarding the nature of malpractice trials and malpractice claims.-- Rick Swedloff , professor of law, Rutgers Law School This comprehensive and systematic empirical study of lawyers' professional liability is the first book to explore an important but woefully neglected topic. Skillfully mining every data source they could find, Kritzer and Vidmar provide a valuable resource for lawyers, social scientists, and policymakers. Especially noteworthy is the book's comparative analysis of legal malpractice and medical malpractice as well as its argument for requiring lawyers to carry malpractice insurance. By raising crucial questions about legal malpractice based on the limited data available, the authors have opened up a new field of research on lawyers' accountability and access to justice for victims of lawyers' misconduct.-- Lynn Mather , coauthor of Divorce Lawyers at Work: Varieties of Professionalism in Practice, "A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of claims of malpractice by lawyers in the United States. This study contributes greatly to our understanding of not only the way LPL claims are handled, but also to larger debates about malpractice and civil justice."-- Law and Politics Book Review
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
347.735041
Table Of Content
List of Tables List of Figures Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Illustrative Cases of Lawyers' Professional Liability 3. Preliminary Issues:Insurance, Bases of Claims, Important Legal Issues, and Differences between Medical Professional Liability and Lawyers' Professional Liability 4. Claims: Rates, Sources, and Issues 5. Resolving Claims: Lawsuits, Claimant Success, and Payments 6. Legal Malpractice Trials 7. Processing Lawyers' Professional Liability Claims 8. Improving Access to Justice for Those Harmed by the Actions of Their Lawyers Notes Index
Synopsis
Lawyers sometimes make mistakes that cause harm to their clients. This book examines the nature of those mistakes, and who is and is not able to obtain compensation, with a particular focus on the access to justice gap between corporate clients and individual clients., Unhappy clients bring thousands of legal malpractice claims every year, against mega law firms and solo practitioners, for simple errors or egregious misconduct, and for losses than can reach $100 million or more. This in an industry, legal services, generating nearly $300 billion a year in revenue and touching every facet of American society. Yet, scant if any scholarly attention has been paid to the questions and consequences of lawyers' professional liability. This book is the first to fully explore the mistakes lawyers sometimes make, the nature of these mistakes, the harm they do, and the significant disparities in outcomes for corporate and individual victims of lawyers' errors. A systematic, empirical study of legal malpractice, When Lawyers Screw Up employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the frequency and nature of claims, the area of practice producing them, the amounts at stake, and the resolutions. The authors also use a range of data sources to study the frequency and outcomes of legal malpractice trials, whether bench or jury. Their comparison of legal malpractice cases involving the corporate and personal service sectors reveal the difficulties confronting claims coming from the personal sector--difficulties that often deny victims redress, even when they have suffered significant harm. When Lawyers Screw Up draws on a series of interviews to describe the practices of lawyers with expertise in handling legal malpractice claims, even as it notes how few such experts are available to prosecute these claims. In light of their findings, the authors suggest a range of reforms that would help victims of legal malpractice, particularly individuals and small businesses, in pursuing their claims.
LC Classification Number
KF313.K75 2018
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