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September 4, 2010

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Broken Confidentiality

Did the lawyer break confidentiality? When someone hires a professional, a confidential relationship usually forms. This applies to a lot of different areas, such as a doctor and a patient, or a priest listening to someone's confession. This also applies to the relationship between a lawyer and a client. The lawyer is expected to keep the details of a client's case confidential and if this trust is broken, the client may have a legitimate legal malpractice lawsuit.

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Lawyers cannot expose any client information that was disclosed:

In person
On the phone
In writing
Through any other types of lawyer/client communication

A lawyer also cannot share any of their client's confidential information with people employed at the law firm, such as law clerks or stenographers. Confidential is confidential and that means absolutely no one should know about a client's private case details!

Confidentiality can be broken when it is not the lawyer's fault, however. For example, if a client brings someone with them to an appointment with their attorney or a client has decided to share their information with others, then confidentiality may possibly be destroyed and this would not be legal malpractice.

As with many legal matters, there are exceptions to this rule and the confidence in a lawyer / client relationship is allowed to be broken in rare occasions. If a client allows the attorney to release his or her records or allows the attorney to discuss the information with others, then the attorney has legal permission to do so and legal malpractice did not occur. Other times that an attorney may be allowed to release a client's private information is if a judge orders it, or if the client threatens the life of someone else, such as the lawyer.

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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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