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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

May 9, 2000

Yawning Gap

Practioner: Law Practice By Karl Bemesderfer Consider this: The actions of a unknown partner working in an office on the other side of the country could cost an attorney his or her house, kids' college educations and maybe even future earnings. This is not a scene from the latest legal thriller. It is a very real depiction of what can happen when a law firm gets sued for malpractice.

By Karl Bemesderfer
        Consider this: The actions of a unknown partner working in an office on the other side of the country could cost an attorney his or her house, kids' college educations and maybe even future earnings. This is not a scene from the latest legal thriller. It is a very real depiction of what can happen when a law firm gets sued for malpractice.
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