Bringing Many Disciplines to Your Defense

We successfully defend lawyers, as well as the firms in which they practice, ranging from sole practitioners to large law firms. The underlying legal problems involved in these cases include personal injury, commercial litigation, divorce and family law, patent litigation, real estate, tax, probate, bankruptcy, products liability, criminal law, and malicious prosecution.

The development and implementation of an effective defense for legal malpractice claims require a keen understanding of the underlying area of law.

Within our firm, we have attorneys with expertise in tax law, intellectual property and patent litigation, bankruptcy, products liability, environmental law and toxic torts, employment and labor law, workers’ compensation, and corporate law.

Our size and depth of practice provides our firm with access to knowledgeable practitioners in numerous practice areas, enabling us to efficiently analyze a claim and pursue the most expeditious defense strategy.

For Attorneys and Referrers

In representing lawyers accused of legal malpractice, McCormick Barstow’s Legal Malpractice practice, has worked for every major underwriter of legal malpractice insurance policies and we are the counsel of choice for many self-insured law firms. We have also represented attorneys in disciplinary proceedings brought by state licensing agencies.

We have expertise defending attorneys in legal malpractice cases and disciplinary proceedings before the State Bar. The firm also has been selected to represent judges in disciplinary matters before the Commission on Judicial Performance.

Our team of experienced defense attorneys recognizes the necessity for discretion in successfully defending an individual or law firm against a legal malpractice claim. We defend legal malpractice cases in a sensitive and highly confidential manner.