Phillip Feldman: Legal Malpractice Expert
After obtaining two evening study degrees from U.S.C., he commenced representing clients against their attorneys or former attorneys upon admission to the California Bar in 1967 and defending attorneys under attack from their clients or former clients. In addition he was an ethics prosecutor for the State Bar (today he defends lawyers before State Bars). From that time to the present, he has supervised other attorneys and personally handled substantial numbers of legal malpractice cases in all phases of transaction and litigation. He is defense counsel on behalf of professionals in professional negligence and disciplinary matters and has always practiced on both sides of the Bar. Admitted U.S. District Court 1967, U.S. Supreme Court 1984. He has been an expert witness for 22 years and never failed to qualify.

In professional liability and professional responsibility, he consults in preventative law and risk management.

Transactional and Litigation Malpractice
For over 22 years, his expert assignments locally and nationally for "underlying matters" have involved both Transactional and Litigation malpractice (prosecution or defense).

Specific fields include: Every aspect of real property including acquisition, sale, encumbrance/security, development and construction, closing; all aspects of commercial, corporate and partnership, contracts and disputes; equitable relief and equity, securities, mergers; IPO’s, buy/sell; general and specialty fields of law including: accounting; wills, trusts, and probate; family, matrimonial, dissolution, divorce, adoption, domestic partners; insurance coverage, professional malpractice; insurance; errors & omissions coverage; class actions; real estate; dental; accounting; product liability, premise liability; toxic torts, intentional torts; negligence; criminal; workers compensation, employment, wrongful termination; bankruptcy; sexual offenses; bad faith, juvenile, et al.
 
    This listing is not all inclusive and includes testimony on standard of care, standard of conduct, informed consent, breach of fiduciary duties, proximate, legal, and actual cause.

Over 36 Years Experience
As a practicing senior partner involved in transactions and litigation and sole practitioner thereafter, his thirty-six (36) years in the specialties of Professional Liability and Professional Responsibility required his undertaking hands-on, direct, personal experience advocating in many of the above fields. His consultation practice requires assisting in personal research and problem solving in most of the "specialty" areas of law today which used to be part of the general practitioner's portfolio.

Board-Certified Specialist
Mr. Feldman is board certified by the American Bar Association, American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys and the state of California in Professional Negligence Medical and Legal. A board-certified specialist in Professional Negligence (legal malpractice) is, after all, the profession's closest thing to "a general practitioner" required to continually keep abreast of the dynamics of "the law".