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12 essential facts that every client needs to know about their Maryland attorney
1. If you are not able to schedule an initial meeting with a potential attorney within a week, it probably means that the attorney is too busy to take your case. 2. In personal injury cases, an attorney's contingency fee percentage is always negotiable. While it may...
read moreHighlights from the Attorney Grievance Commission’s 2016 to 2017 Annual Report
Each year, the Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission issues an annual report on its activities.
read moreAre Maryland Attorneys Allowed to Discriminate in Choosing Their clients?
Maryland’s lawyers are prohibited from discriminating against a potential client based upon the client’s race, gender, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation.
read moreMaryland attorney is disbarred for excessive billing
(1) An attorney’s fees must be reasonable. It usually should not exceed the amount in controversy; and (2) When an attorney commits a mistake, you should not be billed for the time and effort that it takes the attorney to correct the mistake. In other words, a client should not be charged for the attorney’s defective work or for the amount of time that it takes the attorney to correct his or her defective work.
read moreMaryland attorneys have a contractual and ethical duty to submit regular invoices to their clients
A Maryland attorney or law firm has a professional duty to submit regular invoices in order to comply with the ethical obligation “to keep the client reasonably informed of the status of his case.
read moreMaryland attorneys commonly have their clients sign Retainer Agreements with a 12 year statute of limitations
Many law firms in Maryland extend the time to sue their clients for fees to 12-years by having the client sign the document under “seal”. See Courts & Judicial Article 5-102(a)(5) (creating a 12-year statue of limitations for contracts signed under seal).
read moreSecurities litigation malpractice
I recently represented a client who had a legal malpractice claim against his former securities litigation attorneys.
read moreCourt of Special Appeals’ unreported decision vacating a dismissal of a legal malpractice complaint on the grounds that the allegations in the complaint raise a question of fact as to whether the statute of limitations was tolled.
Natashia Woods, had the misfortune of retaining the one attorney in all of Maryland who had the motivation to conceal from her the fact that her 1986 lead paint case against the same landlord had been settled by Mr. Kerpelman for the inadequate amount of $1,000.
read moreAre “Super Lawyers” really superior lawyers?
No publication can ever accurately rate the ability of a lawyer.
read moreWhen does a legal malpractice cause of action accrue in Maryland?
For a client to sue his or her former attorney in Maryland for legal malpractice, the client must first have suffered damages. This means that the client must often wait until the underlying case is concluded to determine whether in fact the attorney’s malpractice caused the client to suffer damages.
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