Texas lawyers who sue lawyers earn gratitude from clients and members of the Texas bar who believe they are doing good work by helping to police the profession. They can also face derision from Texas lawyers who consider legal malpractice litigation unseemly.
That opposition to the notion that lawyers should be held liable when they make a mistake—or worse—hasn’t discouraged members of Texas’ informal legal malpractice bar from continuing to sue other lawyers for allegedly acting negligently, such as by missing a filing deadline or drafting an ineffective contract, or perhaps doing something more egregious such as failing to pay a client the proceeds of a settlement, failing to disclose a conflict of interest or committing fraud against the client.
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