Safe landings in client suits; checking insurance for litigation coverage helps avoid breach of duty
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Attorneys should always check for litigation insurance when thinking about accepting a new matter. Included in such policies are comprehensive general liability, umbrella, errors and omissions and professional liability policies. Increasingly, attorneys who fail to inquire or advise clients about insurance coverage are defendants in malpractice actions claiming breach of duty.Supreme courts in several states have ruled that lawyers had a duty to advise clients about insurance coverage for litigation costs.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1999
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Look before you leap; mobile lawyers need to check policy coverage when changing firms
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The perils of claims-made legal malpractice insurance for lawyers who often change jobs are discussed. Many such policies contain language dealing with the issue of predecessor firms, but attorneys joining a successor firm whose policy does not include a broad definition of "insured" should obtain separate predecessor firm coverage or an extended reporting endorsement to the policy of the predecessor firm.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 2000
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Making a case for PR; once estranged, lawyers and PR agencies find they need each other
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The increasing reliance of law firms on public relations agencies and these agencies' learning how to recommend a media strategy in high-profile litigation is discussed. Several of the major public relations firms have in the last few years set up separate litigation PR practices.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 2001
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