Legal Malpractice
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For more than twenty-five years, F3 lawyers have defended their fellow professionals in legal malpractice claims. Our Firm prides itself on being a 'Lawyer's Lawyer.' During these decades, our lawyers have accepted the responsibility of defending lawyers because we recognize that these cases often have attendant ethics and licensure implications.
Outcomes are generally better when the lawyer or the insurance company hires F3 before the civil action is filed. We have successfully intervened and persuaded the adverse lawyer that suit should not be filed because the putative defendant met the standard of care. If suit has been filed, our team of lawyers has the experience and capacity to investigate, prepare and try the legal malpractice case to a successful resolution.
From the insurance perspective, these cases can be expensive because they frequently involve a case within the case. From the lawyer's perspective, it is a difficult psychological adjustment because of the adverse public relations impact of the mere accusation. As a result, above average preparation and courtroom savvy is necessary to recreate the underlying case, establish standard of care, contest causation and vindicate the lawyer.
F3 accepts representations throughout the state of West Virginia and in proximate regions of Kentucky and Ohio as requested. Compare the qualifications of our lawyers and understand that F3's lawyers have the experience and skills to make the difference. With F3, preparation, communication and professionalism is the commitment.
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| Publications |
| Mistakes That Defense Lawyers Make, Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia (June, 1991) |
| Competence, Communication & Case Management, (Speaker and Seminar Chairman) West Virginia State Bar/WVU College of Law Legal Ethics Seminar (Charleston: January, 1989) and (Morgantown: February, 1989) |
| Civil Litigation Chapter, West Virginia Practice Handbook (Michie 1989) |
| Legal Ethics, Cabell County Bar Association Seminar (November, 1988) |
| Lawyer As Target: Ethical and Malpractice Traps for the Civil Litigator, Cabell County Bar Association Seminar (November, 1988) |
| Ethics for Paralegals, West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association CLE Seminar (February, 1986) |
| Ethical Considerations of the Lawyer and Legal Assistant, Legal Assistants of West Virginia CLE Seminar (October, 1985) |
| Ethics Committee Changes - Enough or Too Much', West Virginia State Bar Journal (1978) |
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| Seminars |
| “Ethical Use of Social Media in Your Law Practice” , Kentucky Bar Association’s Kentucky Law Update in Ashland, Kentucky on October 7, 2009. |
| Mistakes That Defense Lawyers Make, Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia (June, 1991) |
| Competence, Communication & Case Management, (Speaker and Seminar Chairman) West Virginia State Bar/WVU College of Law Legal Ethics Seminar (Charleston: January, 1989) and (Morgantown: February, 1989) |
| Legal Ethics, Cabell County Bar Association Seminar (November, 1988) |
| Lawyer As Target: Ethical and Malpractice Traps for the Civil Litigator, Cabell County Bar Association Seminar (November, 1988) |
| Ethics for Paralegals, West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association CLE Seminar (February, 1986) |
| Ethical Considerations of the Lawyer and Legal Assistant, Legal Assistants of West Virginia CLE Seminar (October, 1985) |
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| Cases |
| Sheetz v. Bowles, Rice, McDavid, Graff & Love, PLLC, 209 W. Va. 318, 547 S.E.2d 256 (2001) |
| Johnson v. Nedeff, 192 W. Va. 260, 452 S.E.2d 63 (1994) |
| Vincent v. Reynolds Memorial Hospital, Inc., 141 F.R.D. 436 (N.D.W. Va. 1992) |
| Committee on Legal Ethics of West Virginia State Bar v. Morton, 186 W. Va. 43, 410 S.E.2d 279 (1991) |
| Hicks v. Wilson, 182 W. Va. 660, 391 S.E.2d 350 (1990) |
| Vincent v. Reynolds Memorial Hospital, Inc., 881 F.2d 1070 (4th Circ. 1989) |
| Vincent v. Preiser, 175 W. Va. 797, 338 S.E.2d 398 (1985) |
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