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Have you been hurt by an incompetent or downright negligent lawyer in Slidell? Call the Wimberly Law Firm for a free consultation with a legal malpractice attorney to see if you have a valid claim for financial compensation.
No one looks forward to seeing a lawyer, but some families in Slidell have been so badly burned by an attorney’s careless mistakes that they feel like they might never trust one again. After all, few betrayals are worse than being kicked when you are already down by someone who was supposed to be your ally and advocate.
A bad lawyer can ruin your life, but a good lawyer can see to it that the bad one pays for what they did to you. Doing so requires bringing a legal malpractice lawsuit against the offending attorney, which is one of the specialties of Tammany Parish attorney Jesse Wimberly of the Wimberly Law Firm.
For decades, the Wimberly Law Firm has proudly been serving victims and their families on both sides of Lake Pontchartrain. With the help of a legal malpractice lawyer like Jesse Wimberly, you can bring forward a claim to obtain financial compensation for the harm done to you by the negligent lawyer and restore your faith in the profession in the process.
When an attorney or lawyer you hired to help you solve a legal problem fails completely or makes your situation even worse, it is only natural to be upset. Even the wealthier families of Slidell think twice before hiring a lawyer, and the catastrophes that occur when attorneys make genuinely careless or negligent decisions can ruin careers or lives.
Not being good enough to solve your problem is hardly a matter to sue over, but when a lawyer fails to live up to the standards of their profession and becomes downright negligent, they can be made to pay for the harm caused. In Louisiana, this is done with a legal malpractice claim or a legal malpractice lawsuit if the lawyer or their insurance company is refusing to settle reasonably.
To make such a claim, you will need to demonstrate three things with the help of a legal malpractice attorney of your own:
Once you have shown this, it will be very hard for the attorney to counter your claim. They would have to prove that even without their error, there is nothing they could have done to win the original case they were supposed to be helping you with. Most lawyers, and more importantly, their legal malpractice insurers, will prefer to settle.
Therefore, the question quickly becomes not whether or not you will get compensation but how much to ask for.
Unlike personal injury claims such as those for truck accidents or a slip-and-fall injury, the damages caused by a negligent lawyer tend to be less straightforward and easier to miss. Lawyers do not tend to leave bloody messes in their wake; the trails of destruction they leave tend to be more abstract, though often just as expensive.
As a result, it is essential to understand what harms, costs and losses you can lay at their feet and ask them to pay and what you cannot. While the following categories are a helpful guide, you should always verify the precise details of your situation with an experienced malpractice lawyer first.
If the case the lawyer was working on came with its own set of damages or complications that you lost out on, then you may be able to claim these as compensation for the attorney’s failure to meet their standard of care. For example, if a personal injury lawyer missed a deadline by which to claim a 20,000-dollar insurance policy, you could claim that as a loss.
These are dollar-value costs and losses you would not have had to pay if not for the incompetence of the lawyer, including their fees.
Not all damages are immediate or as evident as a bill or receipt you can show the court. If a lawyer’s mistake puts you behind bars for six months, then you can demand their insurance cover those months' worth of lost income. This can even include future cuts in your expected income because of their actions.
This category, in particular, is often one of the largest yet also the easiest to overlook by far. Because of this, you should never file a claim without having an attorney review it to make sure you are not giving up on vital compensation.
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If you have been harmed in such a way by the actions of an attorney, it is imperative that you take action quickly. Louisiana law does not allow you to drag your feet, and some lawyers count on that to get away with misdeeds and negligence. You have only a year, in some circumstances three, to make your legal malpractice claim, or you will lose the right to obtain that compensation.
If you wish to recover damages from a lawyer’s negligence in Slidell, call medical malpractice lawyer Jesse Wimberly as soon as possible. Our team knows how to get you through the claim process quickly, efficiently, and, perhaps most importantly, with as much compensation as possible.
To get started on your claim, call now or reach out to the team online and schedule a free consultation.
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