FT. MYERS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Legal malpractice occurs all too often, and is devastating to its victims. Many are abandoned, left penniless, and/or emotionally scarred by their lawyers. Some complain about the lawyers to the Florida Supreme Court. Others start down the road of suing the lawyers to recover only fractions of what they lost.
There is a special bond between a client and their attorney. People must blindly entrust their lives, money, and causes to attorneys. They are completely vulnerable because they lack understanding of the laws and legal procedures needed to protect estates, divorce spouses, set up business, buy or sell real estate, or to protect relatives who are no longer of sound mind.
Most lawyers are honest, competent, and diligent; thousands are not! As in any profession, those who have acted in a dishonest, incompetent or negligent manner, often do it again. Often, second, third, or fourth offenses occur more than 10 years after the first. Only PunishedFloridaLawyers.com covers 25 years of each lawyer's malpractice history.
PunishedFloridaLawyers.com reduces the risk of consumers becoming new victims; it reports complete legal malpractice histories: (1) lawyers disciplined by the Florida Supreme Court for dishonesty, incompetence or negligence, combined with (2) lawyers whose incompetence or negligence has forced malpractice insurance companies to pay claims of $10,000 or more. On average, a lawyer is punished for legal malpractice of these serious criteria every business day (M-F)!
Other websites report only one type of legal malpractice covering the last 10 years. Only a 25-year report, combining both types, tells the whole truth about a lawyer's complete malpractice history!
Only with a complete 25-year malpractice history, can a consumer make an informed decision to blindly trust. . . be especially wary of . . . or completely avoid a particular lawyer.
"We just want to help protect the public," says Jerry Beauchamp, President of PunishedFloridaLawyers.com. "At this point, it is far too easy for unethical lawyers to take advantage of vulnerable clients by committing legal malpractice. We provide the whole truth, so people have a chance to avoid the extreme heartache, inconvenience and loss of money caused by legal malpractice each year in Florida."
"Current numbers show that Floridians lose $70+ million each year due to legal malpractice. We want to significantly decrease that dollar figure," says Beauchamp.