Legal Question in Legal Malpractice in California

Failing To Following Directive of Client
Prior to obtaining our former attorney we discussed throughly with him the fact the the 'ex' makes at least twice what is being claimed. In addition because we had prior experience and knew it was diffucult obtaining the complete and correct information from the 'ex's' employeer, we provided him all pertinent information regarding who, what, where and when to issue the subponea(s). Failing to following our 'advice' he issued the subponea three months after we had suggested and only three weeks before the hearing. The day of the hearing he handed us the unopened complaince, they had not answered on time (as we predicted). Back in Court just four later, we issued another subpoena (pro per). When we ran into trouble with complaince to the subpoena we pursued a motion to compel which resulted in the ex's employer admitting to providing false information in addition proving the 'ex' has lied. The monthy loss to our income is over $500.00 a month, and will remain that way until the hearing 1/2000. Do we have grounds to pursue a legal malpractice action?

Asked on 11/02/99, 6:04 pm

Ken Koury Kenneth P. Koury, Esq.

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Re: Failing To Following Directive of Client

you may but your damages at $500/month for a few months means you would recover far less then the attorney fees on the case.

Answered on 11/03/99, 12:14 am

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