by Stewart Sutton | Dec 20, 2016 | Legal Malpractice
On December 1, 2016, the Court of Special Appeals in an unreported decision found that Stewart A. Sutton’s client had pled sufficient facts in her legal malpractice case against Baltimore lead paint attorney, Saul Kerpelman and his law firm, Kerpelman &...
by Stewart Sutton | Dec 19, 2016 | Legal Malpractice
I just received the 2017 edition of “Super Lawyers” for Maryland. Three Montgomery County law firms that I had successfully sued for legal malpractice on behalf of my clients have prominent ads in the magazine extolling their virtues. As I have stated...
by Stewart Sutton | Dec 1, 2016 | Legal Malpractice
For a client to sue his or her former attorney in Maryland for legal malpractice, the client must first have suffered damages. This usually means that the client must wait until the underlying case is concluded to determine whether in fact the attorney’s...
by Stewart Sutton | Dec 1, 2016 | Legal Malpractice
The most common question that I’m asked is how long does a client have to sue his or her former attorney in Maryland for legal malpractice. The general answer is that the 3-year time period to sue a former attorney for malpractice begins to run when the client...
by Stewart Sutton | Nov 28, 2016 | Legal Malpractice
A new study found that attorneys in America suffer a high rate of alcohol and substance abuse as well as mental health problems. See “The Prevalence of Substance Use and Other Mental Health Concerns among American Attorneys” published in the February 2016 issue of...
