When Lawyers Screw Up: Improving Access to Justice for Legal Malpractice Victims
- ISBN-10
- 0700625852
- ISBN-13
- 9780700625857
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Authors
- Neil Vidmar, Herbert Kritzer
Description
Lawyers sometimes make mistakes that cause harm to their clients. This book examines the nature of those mistakes, and who is and is not able to obtain compensation, with a particular focus on the access to justice gap between corporate clients and individual clients.
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