Professional services firms are tasked daily with advising their clients on sensitive, bet-the-company decisions and actions.
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Professional services firms are tasked daily with advising their clients on sensitive, bet-the-company decisions and actions.
Perkins Coie’s Professional Liability attorneys defend law firms, accounting firms, and other professional services firms and their individual practitioners in civil litigations, investigations, enforcement and disciplinary matters, disqualifications, and criminal proceedings. Our attorneys have developed deep trial and arbitration experience, including in fully remote situations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Professional liability cases often have one thing in common—an attempt by clients to hold practitioners responsible for bad business results. Under the law, however, professionals can be held liable only if they fail to exercise due care in providing their professional advice or judgment, regardless of the business outcome. Our attorneys understand the difference between professional judgment and outcome, and have vast experience defending professionals by educating courts and other decision-makers on this critical distinction.
Professionals, including numerous Am Law 100-ranked law firms and Big 4 accounting firms, have trusted our attorneys to defend them in complex engagements in which their professional livelihoods were at risk, and in which the representation required the utmost discretion, knowledge, and innovation. Smaller regional and local firms have counted on us to bring to bear this same experience and sensitivity.
Our attorneys have successfully represented law firms and lawyers in high-stakes malpractice lawsuits, in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and in state attorney general investigations and other disciplinary proceedings. We also have conducted internal investigations prompted by allegations of professional misconduct and have advised law firms and legal departments of corporations on risk management policies and procedures in order to mitigate the risk of future professional liability claims.
In addition, we have substantial experience representing accounting firms in civil litigation, in DOJ, SEC, and other federal and state investigations, and in disciplinary proceedings before the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), state boards of accountancy and other professional organizations.
Perkins Coie’s Professional Liability attorneys defend law firms, accounting firms, and other professional services firms and their individual practitioners in civil litigations, investigations, enforcement and disciplinary matters, disqualifications, and criminal proceedings. Our attorneys have developed deep trial and arbitration experience, including in fully remote situations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Professional liability cases often have one thing in common—an attempt by clients to hold practitioners responsible for bad business results. Under the law, however, professionals can be held liable only if they fail to exercise due care in providing their professional advice or judgment, regardless of the business outcome. Our attorneys understand the difference between professional judgment and outcome, and have vast experience defending professionals by educating courts and other decision-makers on this critical distinction.
Professionals, including numerous Am Law 100-ranked law firms and Big 4 accounting firms, have trusted our attorneys to defend them in complex engagements in which their professional livelihoods were at risk, and in which the representation required the utmost discretion, knowledge, and innovation. Smaller regional and local firms have counted on us to bring to bear this same experience and sensitivity.
Our attorneys have successfully represented law firms and lawyers in high-stakes malpractice lawsuits, in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and in state attorney general investigations and other disciplinary proceedings. We also have conducted internal investigations prompted by allegations of professional misconduct and have advised law firms and legal departments of corporations on risk management policies and procedures in order to mitigate the risk of future professional liability claims.
In addition, we have substantial experience representing accounting firms in civil litigation, in DOJ, SEC, and other federal and state investigations, and in disciplinary proceedings before the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), state boards of accountancy and other professional organizations.
