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Your options when your business partner breaches fiduciary duty

When you enter into a business partnership, trust and collaboration are key elements for success. However, there may be times when a business partner breaches their fiduciary duty. This breach can jeopardize the partnership and the trust built between business partners. You need to know your options for addressing this issue and protecting your enterprise. […]

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How addiction can lead to legal malpractice

Legal Malpractice / By DLM LAW

Addiction affects Americans from all walks of life. Drugs, alcohol and gambling are all potentially addictive and can destroy your life — along with the lives of people who depend on you. This includes an attorney’s clients. The conflict between work and addiction Among other things, an addiction can affect your work as a lawyer.

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When is specific performance preferable to monetary damages?

Breach of Contract / By DLM LAW

While it’s true that most breach of contract cases get resolved with money changing hands, a financial settlement or verdict is not the only way for a plaintiff to get past the breach. In many cases, you can also get a court order forcing the defendant to do what they initially promised in the contract.

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Is dating a client legal malpractice?

Legal Malpractice / By DLM LAW

In the age of dating apps, people still sometimes meet romantic partners in the real world. You might have first met your spouse or partner at a party or some other random encounter. Or perhaps a mutual friend introduced you. You never know how you and your life partner will first get to know each

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An attorney-client relationship can form more easily than you might think

Legal Malpractice / By DLM LAW

Obviously, an attorney must be your lawyer before they can commit legal malpractice against you. Usually, an attorney and client form the relationship formally after meeting and signing an agreement. But this is not the only way to form an attorney-client relationship and create obligations on the lawyer’s part, such as attorney-client privilege and, potentially,

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