Ed Mendrzycki Essay Contest
Each year, Law Students and Young Lawyers can enter to win a $5,000 cash prize and trip to the National Legal Malpractice Conference. Submissions are now open for Spring 2020!
Standing Committee on Lawyers' Professional Liability
The Standing Committee on Lawyers’ Professional Liability is your source for information on legal malpractice claim statistics, insurance for lawyers, and malpractice prevention tips.
Spring 2020 National Legal Malpractice Conference
Early Bird Registration Ends March 18
The American Bar Association's National Legal Malpractice Conference offers you the profession’s best programming on legal liability issues and developments. Register by March 18, 2020 to receive a special Early Bird rate!
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The Committee's Lawyers’ Professional Liability Consortium (LPLC) provides a place where practicing lawyers, insurance professionals, academics and risk managers meet to exchange views, share knowledge and learn the latest information about the law of lawyering.
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Find lawyers' professional liability insurance carriers in your state.
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Tail Coverage
Everyday lawyers get sued and everyday they file claims with their insurance carrier. But what happens when a claim is filed against you after you leave a firm, if your firm closes, or after you retire? That's what Extended Reporting Periods or "Tail" Coverage are for.
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Claims Study Available
The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Lawyers' Professional Liability released data on a cross-section of legal malpractice claims during the period of 2012 - 2015. Profile of Legal Malpractice Claims 2012-2015 seeks to help lawyers reduce malpractice behavior by providing a "snapshot" of malpractice claim activity. The committee surveyed insurers that provide legal malpractice insurance about the number and type of legal malpractice claims received. To request a copy of this publication, please contact Robert Gottfried at robert.gottfried@americanbar.org or 312-988-5754.