by Stewart Sutton | Jun 10, 2013 | Legal Malpractice
Mets’ manager, Casey Stengel, famously stated: “Can’t anybody here play this game?” The same can be said of Maryland attorney’s ability to draft a concise retainer agreement. An attorney has a duty to draft a retainer agreement that is clear and comprehensible...
by Stewart Sutton | May 30, 2013 | Legal Malpractice
On May 17, 2013, Glenn C. Lewis, once one of Washington’s area most respected divorce lawyers and former President of the Virginia Bar Association, was disbarred for dishonesty and abandoning his clients. Lewis boasted that he was the most expensive lawyer in the...
by Stewart Sutton | May 13, 2013 | Legal Malpractice
In Brault Graham, LLC v. Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos, P.C., __ Md.App. ___ (2013), the Court of Special Appeals reiterated that a client has the inherent right to discharge his or her personal injury attorney at any time. First Union National Bank of Maryland v....
by Stewart Sutton | Apr 16, 2013 | Legal Malpractice
In April 2013, Stewart A. Sutton’s client entered into a post-judgment in a legal malpractice case. The client had obtained a judgment against his former attorney for abandoning his case and then misrepresenting the status of the case. The attorney was subsequently...
