Download This PaperTen Remedies You Must Understand
Practical Litigator, Vol. 16, No. 6, p. 41, 2005
14 Pages Posted: 16 Jul 2008 Last revised: 12 May 2012
Date Written: 2005
Abstract
It is in every lawyer's best interest to know the ten legal remedies available for violations of the law governing lawyers: professional discipline, tort liability to clients, criminal accountability, misrepresentation, tort liability to nonclients, ineffective assistance of counsel, fee forfeiture, sanctions, disqualification, and loss of contractual rights.
Keywords: Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, Remedies, Discipline, Crimes, Misrepresentation, Duties to Third Persons, Tort Liability, Malpractice, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Disqualification, Fee Forfeiture, Loss of Contractual Rights, Sanctions
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