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I once sat on a jury where an attorney was sued for malpractice because of the way he handled the divorce filings for the woman in a divorce. Her husband left her and moved out of state, which created special circumstances in the way her attorney should have filed the divorce papers. In court, the malpractice attorney she hired had two attorney's testify and explain to the jury the normal way her bad attorney should have correctly filed the divorce paperwork. We the jury could then easily see how her bad attorney didn't follow normal established divorce procedures. After the jury seen how the bad attorney deviated from the norm, the woman accepted a large settlement. The key to this malpractice case was "did the divorce attorney follow normal and established legal procedures or did he deviate from the norm", which as a consequence, negatively cost the woman in her divorce case.
Gene
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