Fighting For Your Inheritance
Fighting For Your Inheritance
There are times when people try to implement an estate plan, but things go awry. And that can happen when an attorney makes a mistake in drafting a California Trust or Will resulting in legal malpractice.
Bringing and prosecuting a legal malpractice case against an attorney who improperly drafted a California Living Trust or Will…
From time to time we have clients come to our office upset that the attorney who drafted their parents’ California estate plan (i.e., living trust, will, and durable powers of attorney) got it wrong or perhaps failed to properly implement the parents’ estate plan.
In a recent case we handled an attorney drafted an amendment…
At the end of every case—whether it’s settled or by way of judgment after a trial—I ask the opposing attorney to sit down with me to do a full review of the case. All issues in the case are open for discussion, except for attorney-client communications or any other privileged matters.
The purpose of the…
After making the decision to take all of my cases to trial in 2011, here are the important lessons I learned as a plaintiff’s and estate trial attorney:
1. Taking each of your cases to trial generally works in your client’s favor.
Defense attorneys (and their clients) will offer your clients pennies on the dollar…
