Legal Malpractice Attorney, California Legal Malpractice Lawyer, Gwire Law Offices

Legal malpractice claim against major, mid-west based, national and international law firm for failure to properly secure overseas patent protection for developmental drug. Case settled for confidential settlement. Case was venued in Washington, D.C.

Marin County, California: 2008
Legal Malpractice: Beneficiary of a Botched Will

A legal malpractice action by client, the intended beneficiary of a living trust, to recover damages from attorney who negligently drafted the trust for the decedent.

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San Francisco, 2008:
Legal Malpractice: Corporate Merger and Real Estate Transaction

Legal malpractice claim over the failure of San Francisco law firm to properly document a corporate merger into a national company. Negligence resulted in an approximate $20,000,000 loss to client. Case settled within 9 months of our assuming responsibility (after nearly 2 years of client negotiating with law firm for settlement). Settlement is confidential but was for full policy limit of law firm, plus major contribution direct from law firm since policy was inadequate to cover full client loss.

Silicon Valley, California: 2008:
Legal Malpractice: Patent Infringement Case

Legal malpractice claim against major national law firm (1,000+ lawyers) for failure to properly represent client in a patent infringement case involving semi-conductors. Negligence led to client being forced to settle on disadvantageous tems. Confidential settlement in seven figures.

San Francisco, 2008:
Legal Malpractice: Construction Defect case

Legal malpractice claim against major national law firm (600+ lawyers) for failure to properly represent client in a multi-million dollar construction defect dispute. Negligence, which consisted primarily of the firm’s failure to do proper discovery and secure needed experts, led to client being forced to settle on disadvantageous terms; the client paid several million dollars in settlement on a case on which client should have recovered damages). Confidential Settlement.

Los Angeles: 2008:
Legal Malpractice: Sale of Business

Legal malpractice claim against mid-size regional (Southern California) law firm for failure to properly represent client in a breach of contract case involving the multi-million dollar sale of an HMO. Firm’s negligence led to loss on a summary judgment motion (which clearly should have been defeated) effectively destroying client’s claims. Case settled after several years of litigation for confidential amount, at about 50% of value of client’s claims. Case was extremely complex and had several formidable defenses to contend with.

Fresno, California: 2008
Legal Malpractice: Personal Injury

This case was against an attorney involving particularly egregious breaches of professional responsibility, fiduciary duties and ethics. Our client sought damages and disgorgement of attorney’s fees paid to attorney in connection with attorney’s representation of client in a personal injury action. On the eve of trial and contrary to the attorney-client contingent fee agreement (which required the attorney to advance all costs), attorney demanded that client advance a significant sum to cover the costs of trial or attorney would withdraw.

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U.S. District Court: San Francisco, 2008
Fee Dispute: Unconscionable Fee Claim

Breach of fiduciary duty claim against law firm for unconscionable fee claim against injured and retired pro football player. We successfully represented client in claim against for disability benefits, but demanded unconscionable fees, close to equivalent of seven figures Client offered settlement of $300,000 (before our involvement), which firm rejected. Case settled after 6 months of litigation for $75,000 paid by client to law firm.

Florida: 2008:
Legal Malpractice: Patent Infringement

Legal malpractice claim against Florida law firm for failure to properly handle trial for software developers sued by competitor for patent infringement on software program. Loss at trial by law firm led to clients having to relinquish rights to successful software program and loss in the millions of dollars. Case was litigated in Florida (we were brought in by local counsel) and settled after a year of bitterly fought litigation for firm’s policy limit.

San Francisco, 2008
Attorney Fee: Arbitration on Fraudulent Billing

In this binding arbitration before a retired JAMS judge, we represented a financial services company that had been overbilled about $200,000 as a result of the law firm surreptitiously hiking its hourly attorney fee rates without providing proper notice. The firm claimed that the hourly fee increases could be discerned from the statements, which the client admitted had been reviewed.

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U.S Federal District Court: 2008
Attorney Fee Dispute

We represent plaintiffs in connection with all manner of cases involving negligent, unethical and greedy attorneys, and sometimes that means representing lawyers against other lawyers. This is such a case.

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California: Late 2007
Attorney Fee Dispute

Lawyers don’t just demonstrate their greed against their clients, they exhibit greed when it comes to sharing fees with other lawyers. As in the case described above, our client was an attorney who referred what turned out to be a very large case to another law firm who agreed to pay the referring attorney a referral fee, which under California law has to be in writing, and has to be consented to by the client.

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San Mateo, California: 2007
Legal Malpractice: Purchase of Assets out of Bankruptcy

Legal malpractice claim over Silicon Valley law firm’s failure to properly represent hi-tech company which purchased IT assets out of bankruptcy court. Firm’s negligence involved the failure to properly securitize assets resulting in needless litigation and additional payment by client to secure assets. Settlement was for several million dollars at approximately 80% of client’s losses.

California, 2007
Attorney Fee Dispute
Ultra Confidential Settlement

Action on behalf of clients whose attorneys “allegedly” breached fiduciary duties relating to settlement offers and demanding improper contingency fees and costs.

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Los Angeles, California: 2007
Confidential Settlement: Personal Injury Legal Malpractice

We represented a wife and mother who had a personal injury case against K-Mart. Her lawyer failed to properly prosecute the case because he believed that when K-Mart went into bankruptcy, her claim would be treated like any other creditor’s claim and either be wiped out, or reduced to a “pennies on the dollar” type recovery. He failed to recognize that his client’s claim would have been handled either outside the bankruptcy, or within the bankruptcy as a “pre-petition” claim and had full recovery potential. Settled on the eve of trial for about 90% of the value of the client’s personal injury claim.