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What is your approach to legal malpractice defense?
What is your approach to legal malpractice defense?
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of course once the client has waived
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the privilege by suing the lawyer that
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waves the privilege so
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still lawyers are reluctant to telling
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you everything
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but you need to know everything and to
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defend them properly
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and then you have to present it
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honestly
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because you don’t want to leave lose the
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trust of the judge and jury
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the approach goes back to
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finding the truth and presenting the
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truth in
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as attractive a matter as possible
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without
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stretching it to the point of
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credulity
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advice to lawyers
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of course is to be honest with us and
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honest with the judge and jury but in
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addition
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many lawyers get so nervous about this
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i can remember getting sued uh once it
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wasn’t legal malpractice but it was a
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commercial matter
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and my wife got so scared
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she had to call another lawyer to calm
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her down well some lawyers are that way
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they will get
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so scared that they will start changing
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their estate plan
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deeding things to their wives
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and so forth they don’t need to do that
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it’s very seldom that a lawyer that has
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legal malpractice insurance has any
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realistic exposure and even if he does
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most cases we can get settled within the
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policy limits so
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not to get overly upset
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is
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one significant piece of advice on a
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personal level to a lawyer and i love
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representing lawyers i think it’s a
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great honor
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even if they don’t think well of
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themselves and sometimes they don’t
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particularly when they’ve just been sued
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they all have some honor and some some
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respect in in my mind
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and i tried to show that to them and to
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be honored by their
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selection of council
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San Antonio, TX commercial litigation attorney Lewin Plunkett shares his approach to legal malpractice defense.
