Legal Malpractice

Gavin Law Legal Malpractice Claims Attorneys

You hire a lawyer to best represent your rights, but sometimes mistakes occur. If your lawyer delivers insufficient services or makes a mistake that causes you to suffer damages, that lawyer may be held liable.

Lawyer malpractice (legal malpractice) may fit within three categories:

Negligence

A lawyer fails to use that level of reasonable care required of a lawyer representing a client.

Breach of Fiduciary Duty

A lawyer acts in his or her own best interest rather than in the client’s best interest.

Breach of Contract

A lawyer fails to uphold some aspect of the representation contract with a client.

If you have been harmed as a result of lawyer malpractice in Illinois or Missouri, Gavin Law Firm will help you through the complex field of legal malpractice litigation to achieve the best possible recovery of damages to compensate for the harm caused by the legal malpractice.