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Other California lawyers grumble that Sacramento Attorney Edward P. Freidberg is "a wise guy just looking for trouble." What bugs them is not that Freidberg, at 40, is one of the busiest medical-malpractice lawyers on the West Coast, and earns an income that allows him a large house in Sacramento, an apartment in Los Angeles, a condominium in Hawaii and a pair of race horses. Freidberg upsets his colleagues because he is pioneering in what promises to be a busy new activity in the field of professional malpractice: big-money court suits against negligent lawyers...
Damn Fool. One of the early big-money cases of legal malpractice was the one that drew Lawyer Freidberg into the field. In 1967 Rosemary Smith, a Sacramento housewife, sued to divorce her husband, a retired general in the state National Guard. Her lawyer advised her that she had no claim to a share of her husband's pension. Then after the settlement she learned that such benefits are indeed considered community property in California. Mrs. Smith decided to sue her counsel. Three lawyers declined to take the case; Freidberg accepted it, took the attorney to court and eventually...
Though clients seem increasingly eager to sue for lawyers' malpractice, lawyers are not as enthusiastic about bringing another attorney to court. Says Freidberg: "Lawyers don't have enough self-confidence to say, 'If another attorney is negligent, let him fall...
...Freidberg's firm has won four major legal-malpractice suits, totaling $282,000 in damages. He has four more suits pending and plans to file another soon. Meanwhile, his track record has brought him calls from prospective clients from all parts of the country. Says
...SIDNEY FREIDBERG...