What a jury is told about attorney and legal malpractice in the State of New York
An attorney who undertakes to represent a client impliedly represents that he or she possesses a reasonable degree of skill, that he or she is familiar with the rules regulating practice in actions of the type which he or she undertakes to bring or defend and with the principles of law in relation to such actions as are well settled in the practice of law, and that he or she will exercise reasonable care.
Reasonable care means that degree of skill commonly used by an ordinary member of the legal profession. However, an attorney is not a guarantor of the result of the case. Moreover, if an attorney points out to the client the nature of the risks involved in a certain course of procedure and the client elects to follow that course, the attorney is not responsible for the consequences.
What a jury is told about attorney and legal malpractice in the State of New York
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