Legal Malpractice

Choosing the right attorney is paramount to achieving your goals. Not only must your attorney have appropriate experience and qualifications, he/she must be willing to put your objectives first.

The legal malpractice attorneys at Stephen G. Thomas & Associates Co., L.P.A. believe lawyers should play by the same rules that govern their clients. When lawyers don’t uphold their ethical and legal obligations, we will sue them.

In more than 30 years of practice, our attorneys have too often seen lawyers looking out for themselves. Oftentimes, a lawyer’s self-interest causes him/her to ignore conflicts, with catastrophic results.

Have you experienced:

• Lawyers who fail to identify legal deadlines and fail to file actions within the appropriate statute of limitation?
• Lawyers who fail to recognize problems beyond their experience or training and fail to refer clients’ problems to those who know how to handle them?
• Lawyers who copy business succession plans from books, while overlooking details that cause uncorrectable post-death results?
• Lawyers who draft a client’s business succession plan to secure the lawyer’s own future, by manipulating an elderly client’s ego following a successful business career?
• Divorce lawyers who deliberately refuse to spend the time needed to include an opposing spouse’s most valuable asset as marital property?
• Lawyers who draft wills without regard for family dynamics, working instead to control the estate after the client dies?
• Lawyers who suggest themselves or a spouse to take under a will instead of an addled client’s natural heirs?
• Lawyers who do not secure a client’s sale of a multimillion dollar family business, because the seller has not paid their bills and because they hope to curry favor with the buyer?

These are all claims on which we have helped clients recover legal and malpractice damages ranging from high five figures to several million dollar recoveries. And not just from lawyers, but from accountants, architects and other professionals, too.

Sometimes attorneys are negligent, sometimes unethical, sometimes simply cheats. Our knowledge and skills covering a broad range of practice areas afford us a full understanding of a professional’s obligations. The lessons of legal malpractice and professional negligence litigation have taught us how to detect errors and schemes and to help new clients avoid the pitfalls of inferior, inattentive or unethical legal representation and professional negligence.

When necessary, we sue to repair the damage.

If you are interested in quality representation, rendered with a critical eye and diligent attention to detail, we invite you to CONTACT US.Let us help guide your journey to achievepeace of mind.

Serving Northeast Ohio, including Cleveland, Chagrin Falls, Chardon, Akron, Elyria, Canton, the Chagrin Valley, the counties of Cuyahoga, Geauga, Summit, Lake, Ashtabula, Lorain, Stark and wherever else our clients' paths may lead.