Illinois Legal Malpractice Blog

There was an interesting article in Sunday's Chicago Tribune, story here, about the increase in corporate clients suing large law firms (100+ attorneys) for legal malpractice. According to the article, in the past corporate clients were unlikely to sue law firms but that has changed over the last 5 years due to cases like Enron. Corporations have fiduciary duties to shareholders and sharholders are holding their executives' feet to the fire. This greater accountability has led executives to evaluate if a corporation has a claim for malpractice against law firms that may have negligently represented the corporation.