Attorney Liability

The lawyer’s main duty is to provide the client with comprehensive legal advice, in particular explaining all the risks of the specific case, with the aim of showing the client the safest path. If the lawyer violates one of these obligations, he is obliged to compensate the client for the resulting damage; this is a case of lawyer liability. Every lawyer is required to take out liability insurance for lawyers’ liability, which must pay for legal errors, so it is guaranteed that the client will be fully compensated for the damage.

Attorney liability due to attorney errors is no longer uncommon these days. An increasingly unmanageable, complex collection of laws, regulations and case law decisions and a glut of lawyers who are under constant competitive pressure mean that legal errors happen every day in today’s legal practice and lead to lawyer liability.

Legally, lawyer liability arises from Sections 280 ff. BGB or Sections 823 ff. BGB.

On the following pages we will try to provide you with as much information as possible about legal liability.

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