Problem clients never get better with time. Instead, over the course of a representation, problem clients often go from being challenging relationships to legal malpractice claims in progress. As a result, screening clients has become an increasingly important part of legal malpractice claim prevention.
For many attorneys in today’s difficult economic world, screening clients seems like a far-fetched concept akin to telling a starving man to watch what he eats. Many firms are just glad to have clients, and screening the few they have appears to be the least of their worries.
