Maryland Legal Malpractice

Settlements and Verdicts

    

     The median legal malpractice settlement/verdict in Maryland is $125,000, according to a Metro Verdict Monthly report published in 2010. Median legal malpractice settlements and verdicts were higher in Virginia (median: $212,500) and Washington, D.C. (median $200,000), according to the study. Although the data is old, the average legal malpractice verdict (not considering settlements) in Missouri was about $131,000. It is worth noting that while there is no data available on the average legal malpractice verdict in Maryland, you can expect that the number is probably at least three times the median. The median verdict blunts the effect of larger malpractice awards/settlements.

Maryland personal injury lawyers are the most represented type of attorney in legal malpractice claims. (Real estate lawyers are not far behind.) A remarkable number of these cases involve personal injury lawyers who have blown the statute of limitations. Many of these involve personal injury accident cases involving federal, state, or local government defendants where there are deadlines to file formal notice of an intent to make a claim.

In these types of cases, the client bringing the legal malpractice claim on your behalf must demonstrate that he/she would have won the original case and how much would have been recovered. So if an accident lawyer blows the statute of limitations, the Plaintiff is required to make the original claim in the malpractice claim.

     Our law firm handles only legal malpractice cases them stem from a serious personal injury case. If you have a potential legal malpractice case Maryland that you want to discuss with one of our attorneys call us for a free consultation at 800-553-8082 or get a free no obligation online consultation.