Sentences with phrase «term legal malpractice»

What this means to the modern practitioner is that all players in the game (attorneys, clients, judges and juries), now share the same understanding and appreciation of not only the meaning of the term legal malpractice, but its role in maintaining the balance between the attorney's prerogatives in selecting strategy and tactics and the clients» right to competent, ethical representation.

The social and etymological maturity of the term legal malpractice» is reflected in the fact that the 8th and 9th Editions of Black's Law Dictionary have continued to use essentially the same definition, now for over 30 years.

The 8th (1999) and 9th (2009) Edition of Black's uses the same definition as the 7th, reflecting perhaps the full development and meaning of the term legal malpractice.

This 19th Century troika of «mala» terms is significant in the development of the term legal malpractice.

How these terms coalesce with the later developed term legal malpractice is explored below.

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Stated differently, by 1979 the term «legal malpractice» had reached a new level of maturity as lawyers joined the ranks of other common tortfeasors such as automobile drivers, premise owners, manufacturers and physicians and surgeons.

In the original California Appellate and Supreme Court reports (1850 — 1934) the term «legal malpractice» does not appear once in an advanced word search.

Again, the term «legal malpractice» was not included, but the word «malpractice» did appear for the first time as a primary word.

The 3rd Edition of Black's, published in 1933, still did not include the term «legal malpractice», but did expand the application of the term and make a prophetic reference.

This change is reflected in Black's definition of both the word «malpractice» and the term «legal malpractice».

In it, the term «legal malpractice» appears in first position as a subcategory under «malpractice» but with significant changes.

For the first time the term «legal malpractice» appeared as a standalone term under the word malpractice.

The faxes sent by defendant to plaintiff seek to speak to legal issues involving attorney malpractice; not once by its terms does it propose a commercial transaction of any kind.

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Legal malpractice is a term used to describe negligence, breach of contract, or breach of fiduciary duty on the part of an attorney that is detrimental to the client.

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