Acronyms that contain the term legal malpractice 

Legal malpractice

Legal malpractice is the term for negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, or breach of contract by an attorney that causes harm to his or her client. In order to rise to an actionable level of negligence, the injured party must show that the attorney's acts were not merely the result of poor strategy, but that they were the result of errors that no reasonable attorney would make. Furthermore, legal malpractice requires proof of what would have happened had the attorney not been negligent; that is, "but for" the attorney's negligence. If the same result would have occurred despite different actions by the attorney, no cause of action will be permitted. "But for" or actual causation can be difficult to prove and usually results in a "trial-within-a-trial" which delves into the facts of the case for which the client originally retained the attorney. In at least 11 jurisdictions, a person convicted of a crime who then sues his defense attorney must first prove that he was factually innocent and that he was convicted only because of his attorney's negligence.

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