I am about to be sued and I don’t have legal malpractice insurance. Will I have any problems because I don’t have malpractice insurance?   

As has been said in past articles, there is no requirement in Pennsylvania to have legal malpractice insurance. Unlike doctors, lawyers do not have a mandatory requirement to maintain legal malpractice insurance. Perhaps someday that will occur, though hopefully it will not.

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