Add to ORKGOur most distinguished professions do not maintain congruency between membership standards and actual performance. This deficiency is manifest; spiraling malpractice litigation witnesses a substantial increase in both the number of suits and the amount of recovery. Neither the professions nor public can long endure this trend. Governmental and possibly lay intervention in profession affairs is imminent unless the professions move decisively to understand better the dynamics of malpractice and do excise its causes. This article examines professional malpractice and existing responses to it, relates various cases in a calculus that can be employed to anticipate systemic patterns of malpractice, and suggests several approaches that should inhi...
This note argues that the use of a but for standard of causation in legal malpractice cases - i.e., ...
A great deal has been written during the past several years about the increasing number of professio...
This Note compares two medical-malpractice reforms: enterprise liability and no-fault. The Note comp...
Our most distinguished professions do not maintain congruency between membership standards and actua...
The decade of the 1970\u27s saw an increase of crisis proportions in the number of medical malpracti...
I. Introduction II. Medical Errors: Refining the Tort Standard of Care ... A. Physician Fault—The Ne...
This Article will review existing case law and commentary, and propose a new formula for application...
Surprisingly little has been written on the law of legal malpractice. Even more disturbing is the fa...
In this Article, Professor Silver examines the origins of present-day malpractice law. He begins by ...
Using this broad connotation of justice, this Article questions whether many victims of legal malpra...
The last forty years have seen a marked rise in legal malpractice lawsuits. Recent numbers show that...
An increasing number of tasks once reserved to lawyers are now being performed by non-lawyers. That ...
Until recently, when we spoke of malpractice we invariably meant medical malpractice. Less than 20 y...
Section 9-11-9.1 of the Georgia Code might be the state\u27s most notorious procedural statute. Enac...
There is significant risk today that lawyers will become the target of a disciplinary or legal malpr...
This note argues that the use of a but for standard of causation in legal malpractice cases - i.e., ...
A great deal has been written during the past several years about the increasing number of professio...
This Note compares two medical-malpractice reforms: enterprise liability and no-fault. The Note comp...
Our most distinguished professions do not maintain congruency between membership standards and actua...
The decade of the 1970\u27s saw an increase of crisis proportions in the number of medical malpracti...
I. Introduction II. Medical Errors: Refining the Tort Standard of Care ... A. Physician Fault—The Ne...
This Article will review existing case law and commentary, and propose a new formula for application...
Surprisingly little has been written on the law of legal malpractice. Even more disturbing is the fa...
In this Article, Professor Silver examines the origins of present-day malpractice law. He begins by ...
Using this broad connotation of justice, this Article questions whether many victims of legal malpra...
The last forty years have seen a marked rise in legal malpractice lawsuits. Recent numbers show that...
An increasing number of tasks once reserved to lawyers are now being performed by non-lawyers. That ...
Until recently, when we spoke of malpractice we invariably meant medical malpractice. Less than 20 y...
Section 9-11-9.1 of the Georgia Code might be the state\u27s most notorious procedural statute. Enac...
There is significant risk today that lawyers will become the target of a disciplinary or legal malpr...
This note argues that the use of a but for standard of causation in legal malpractice cases - i.e., ...
A great deal has been written during the past several years about the increasing number of professio...
This Note compares two medical-malpractice reforms: enterprise liability and no-fault. The Note comp...