Sentences with phrase «reasonable lawyer»
You also may recover reasonable lawyers» fees and court costs.
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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.
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.»
The reasonable lawyer standard does not call for an assessment of the sagacity of the decision made by the lawyer.
The lawyer received the funds for the husband and then breached a standard of care owed by a reasonable lawyer in these circumstances, the court ruled.