Keywords
torts; malpractice; remedies
Abstract
Using this broad connotation of justice, this Article questions whether many victims of legal malpractice are denied access to justice. In writing about the regulatory function of legal malpractice as a tort, Professor John Leubsdorf argues that legal malpractice relates to three important functions of the law of lawyering: “[D]elineating the duties of lawyers, creating appropriate incentives and disincentives for lawyers in their dealings with clients and others, and providing access to remedies for those injured by improper lawyer behavior.” Arguably, persons injured by lawyer misconduct are denied access to justice if our civil liability system does not provide them access to meaningful redress.
Recommended Citation
Susan S. Fortney,
A Tort in Search of a Remedy: Prying Open the Courthouse Doors for Legal Malpractice Victims,
85 Fordham L. Rev. 2033
(2017).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol85/iss5/6
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