Overview
When it comes to legal and professional malpractice defense, CSG Law offers skillful excellence in addition to a deep bench of attorneys and decades of experience.
The CSG Law Legal & Professional Malpractice Defense Team has significant experience defending attorneys, law firms, their insurers and other professionals – such as accountants, architects and environmental consultants – in a variety of matters including allegations of malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, aiding and abetting, and other tortious conduct before federal and state courts as well as disciplinary review boards. The firm has represented some of the largest law firms in New York, New Jersey, the region and nationwide, as well as smaller firms and solo practitioners.
Depending on the underlying subject matter of the claim, the team will partner with other CSG Law practice groups to ensure a proper and thorough examination of the event out of which the claim originated, as well as an understanding of the applicable law.
As part of our proactive counsel, the Legal & Professional Malpractice Defense Team assists clients in establishing procedures and protocols to help prevent potential missteps. Further, CSG Law provides presentations on legal malpractice updates in the law as well as loss prevention techniques – topics on which our professionals have frequently presented.
The firm also serves as ethics counsel to law firms or companies seeking advice relating to the Rules of Professional Conduct, and firm attorneys provide written ethics opinions where appropriate.