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The Lawyer’S Duty To Inform His Client Of His Own Malpractice, Benjamin P. Cooper

Benjamin P Cooper

Every big-firm litigation partner has received the call from his colleague in the corporate department: “The big deal that I was working on fell apart, and now the client has been sued. Can you handle the litigation?” While this turn of events is not good news for the client, it is not necessarily bad news for the law firm, which may now be looking forward to lengthy litigation and big fees. Because of that, the litigation partner’s response is usually the same – he says, “yes,” and simply assumes that his partner was not the cause of the litigation or …