Re: Legal Audits

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Just call it legal risk consulting, saying its an audit you
are right implies you will hit everything.
Its fairly common and considered a low risk practice area.

On 6/14/07, still looking wrote:
> A non-attorney friend suggested that business and perhaps
> individuals should have an attorney conduct a 'Legal
> Audit', meaning a comprehensive review of their situation
> with recommendations on areas to improve. I said it is
> not a bad idea, but I thought that most attorneys would
> probably avoid such an engagement because it would open up
> too much malpractice exposure. I can just see someone
> coming back in two years saying, This happened to me, and
> you told me this! or This happened and you missed this!
> And I don't see anyway under the ethical canons for a
> lawyer to limit their liability with such an engagement.
> I told him that lawyers are trained to handle individual
> specific cases with existing problems, and really don't
> like to get into hypotheticals, which would be the
> foundation of this so-called legal audit. Also, I said
> there wouldn't be many attorneys with the expertise to
> handle such a comprehensive engagement. He said they can
> recommend other attorneys for the areas they don't
> specialize in. Well if anyone provided this kind of
> service it would probably be just a big full service law
> firm. Am I overly cautious on my view of malpractice?