Legal malpractice

Lawyers exist to help clients with legal issues, not compound their problems.   If a legal case is lost or compromised due to the negligence of an attorney and/or the attorney’s law firm staff, a client may have an avenue for recovery for the losses.

The process for prosecuting a legal malpractice case in Georgia is somewhat complicated as it is deemed a “professional negligence” matter requiring special pleadings (under O.C.G.A. § 9-11-9.1) to initiate suit.  Substantively, in order to recover for legal malpractice under Georgia law, a client must demonstrate that his/her counsel committed a significant error that irreparably damaged the client’s case and that, but for the error, the client would have prevailed in the underlying action.

The Dow Firm, P.C. handles legitimate legal malpractice matters for clients who have been seriously harmed by negligent lawyers.