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February 7, 2012

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Disputes over the proper interpretation of the statute of limitations for legal malpractice (Code Civ. Proc. § 340.6) are common. To reduce the number of disputes and improve the functioning of the statute, the Law Revision Commission
proposes to:
• Add a new tolling provision, which would apply when an attorney’s liability for malpractice may depend on the outcome of an underlying proceeding, such as a lawsuit that the attorney allegedly mishandled.
• Require the plaintiff, rather than the defendant attorney, to bear the burden of proof regarding when the plaintiff discovered, or through reasonablediligence should have discovered, the facts constituting the malpractice.
• Delete an unnecessary and confusing sentence pertaining to “an action based upon an instrument in writing, the effective date of which depends uponsome act or event of the future.”

This recommendation was prepared pursuant to Resolution Chapter 92 of the Statutes of 2003.

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Contact a Legal Malpractice Attorney for the following California cities:

Antioch
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Hawthorne
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Pacoima
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Oxnard
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Pittsburg
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Hesperia
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Huntington Park
Indio
La Habra
La Puente
Laguna Niguel
Lake Forest
Lancaster
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Long Beach
Los Angeles
Lynwood
Merced

Milpitas
Montebello
Moreno Valley
Napa
North Hollywood
Norwalk
Oceanside
Ontario
Oxnard
Pacoima
Palmdale
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Pico Rivera
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Pomona
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Reseda
Rialto
Riverside
Rosemead
Sacramento
Salinas
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
San Pedro
Santa Ana
Simi Valley
South Gate
South San Francisco
Sylmar
Tulare
Union City
Vacaville
Victorville
Vista
Watsonville
Westminster

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Did You Know?

Some Legal Malpractice complaint lawsuits result in large amounts of money.

Last year, almost 2,000 victims received over $100,000.

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Lawyers are still committing legal malpractice

Each year lawyers that commit legal malpractice overcharge fees, lose cases, or neglect their client’s needs and statistics show approximately 35,000 legal malpractice cases occur each year.

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Emotional Distress can be sought in legal malpractice cases

After losing your legal case because of your lawyer, there is traumatic emotional distress build up from the previous case and now combined with the malpractice from this lawyer, you are faced with more emotional problems and are entitled to compensation.

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Personal Injury case are the largest area in legal malpractice.

In fact, lawyers representing a client in a Personal Injury case make up approximately 25% of legal malpractice cases.

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