You also may recover reasonable lawyers» fees and court costs. (consumer.ftc.gov)
Legal malpractice in the 7th Edition of Black's defined as: «A lawyer's failure to exercise the degree of care and skill, prudence, and diligence that an ordinary and reasonable lawyer would use under similar circumstances. (lawyer-monthly.com)
Crawford notes the difficulty in making an ethics charge stick, citing legal ethics expert Geoffrey Hazard, who concludes that «it is hard to say that memo was so outside the range of plausible laywered judgement that no reasonable lawyer would render it.» (legalblogwatch.typepad.com)