Legal Malpractice in Personal Injury Cases

Sophisticated New York Legal Malpractice Lawyer

The knowledge, skill and experience of the lawyer you choose will almost always have a major impact on the outcome of your serious personal injury case. In some situations, an unfortunate choice of counsel can lead to a bad outcome with a claim. You may be faced with the choice of giving up your cause or having an NYC legal malpractice attorney review what happened and offer legal guidance.

The skills that have allowed our legal team at Smiley & Smiley, LLP, in Manhattan to obtain just outcomes for thousands of clients — including numerous multimillion-dollar settlements and verdicts at trial — also equip us to evaluate your potential legal malpractice claim in a serious personal injury or wrongful death case.

Did Missed Deadlines or Procedural Mistakes Derail Your NYC Injury Claim?

Those same skills have earned us the respect of other attorneys and, in fact, many referrals. However, our commitment to people injured in New York leads us to hold other attorneys accountable for mistakes that prevent a just outcome. Errors that may justify a legal malpractice claim include:

• Failure to file a notice of claim or other action within required time periods
• Failures to name the proper, correct entity as the defendant(s), as in a medical malpractice claim that should name a hospital rather than a specific physician
• Failure to abide by the Federal Tort Claims Act and other critical procedural missteps
• Proven Skill To Pursue Your Legal Malpractice Case

Our legal team can handle both critical aspects of a valid attorney malpractice claim in a personal injury matter — demonstrating that malpractice occurred and proving the merits of the underlying case.