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Protect yourself in the courtroom with an experienced professional malpractice litigation attorney

If You Have Been Harmed Because of Legal, Accounting, and Other Professional Malpractice, Contact an Attorney Today

Lawyers and other licensed professionals are entrusted and expected to have a certain level of competency and skill.

Professional negligence occurs when a lawyer or other professional fails to provide competent service, and the client is damaged as a result of that incompetence.

Our professional malpractice litigation attorneys handle the most challenging legal cases and professional negligence claims. Our approach to litigation involves working with the client to consider all damages and creative solutions to all their problems.

Every professional malpractice litigation attorney on the 1818 litigation team examines every detail of the conflict and then identifies the tools we can use before setting a course for success in the courtroom.

Call today for a free consultation with a professional malpractice litigator.

Common Legal Malpractice Activities

Here are some of the common malpractice claims a professional litigation attorney can help individuals and businesses navigate:

  • Failure to know the law
  • Settlement without a client’s knowledge, authority, or consent
  • Failure to follow court orders or file appropriate documentation
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Missed statutes of limitations
  • Negligence during trial
  • Incomplete investigation

Common Architects and Engineers Malpractice Activities

Here are some of the common malpractice claims against architects and engineers that an experienced professional malpractice litigator can help you navigate:

  • Failing to comply with building codes, zoning laws, or permits
  • Errors in engineering and/or architectural blueprints or plans
  • Assigning personnel to a project that does not have the proper qualifications
  • Failing to complete a project by the contracted deadline
  • Having insufficient supervision of contractors on-site
  • Providing incorrect advice or false information to a client

Common Certified Public Accountants Malpractice Activities

Here are some of the common malpractice issues a professional malpractice litigation attorney can help CPAs navigate:

  • Negligent errors or omissions in their recording and reporting of information
  • Incorrect or inadequate tax advice
  • Failure to adhere to professional standards or GAAP, or Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Preparing inaccurate tax returns
  • Improper auditing or compilation of financial statements
  • Failing to discover employee embezzlement

Common Real Estate Brokers Malpractice Activities

Here are some of the common malpractice claims a professional malpractice litigator can help real estate brokers navigate:

  • Providing false information
  • Failing to disclose a property’s known defects
  • Conflicts of Interests
  • Negligent misrepresentations about building regulations or zoning laws
  • Fraud (i.e., working with straw buyers to drive up a property’s price)
  • Failing to uphold fiduciary responsibilities

Common Title Insurance Malpractice Activities

Here are some title insurance common malpractice issues a professional malpractice litigation attorney can help you navigate:

  • Theft of closing funds
  • Negligence or misrepresentation of existing liens
  • Mortgage and lien priority and validity
  • Boundaries, access, and encroachments

Common Mortgage Brokers Malpractice Activities

Here are some of the common malpractice issues mortgage brokers run into that a professional malpractice litigation attorney can help you with:

  • Disputes in reverse mortgages
  • Disputes over owner financing agreements
  • Fraud and negligent misrepresentation claims

Common Cemetery Owners Malpractice Activities

Here are some of the common malpractice claims against cemetery owners that a professional malpractice litigator can help you with:

  • Misidentification of the body
  • Bodies being mishandled, mutilated, disfigured or distorted
  • Theft
  • Improper grave care
  • Grave disturbance
  • Accidental Cremation
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