What is competence?
Competence is a person who possesses knowledge, skills, thoroughness, and preparation in his/her field of work. Under the provisions of California rules on lawyer competence (CRPC) 3-10 states: “an attorney must not intentionally, recklessly, or repeatedly fail to perform legal services with competence.” Yet, an attorney can still practice law without certain skills as long as they know how to cure their lack of learning or skills by consulting with another knowledgeable attorney, expert in the field, or by acquiring sufficient learning skills before performance is required. How would you define it in your own words?
If you're an attorney before you accept any work, in your mind you must know that you have acquired at least the basic legal skills necessary before you represent a client, and if you know that you lack certain skills necessary for the representation then you must know where to go to find them. For those reasons, you will be properly prepared to take on a client’s complaint. …show more content…
Ethics are moral beliefs and rules about right or wrong, so a lawyer is competent when he is right; on the other hand, a lawyer is not competent when he is wrong. Can you provide some hypothetical examples that would display a lack of competence on the part of an attorney and/or his/her legal team?
The result of a lawyer taking on a medical malpractice claim without having any experience with that type of claim is incompetent. What’s more whenever a lawyer is unable to produce a work product that reasonably meets a client’s expectations, they have demonstrated the lack of
Competence is a person who possesses knowledge, skills, thoroughness, and preparation in his/her field of work. Under the provisions of California rules on lawyer competence (CRPC) 3-10 states: “an attorney must not intentionally, recklessly, or repeatedly fail to perform legal services with competence.” Yet, an attorney can still practice law without certain skills as long as they know how to cure their lack of learning or skills by consulting with another knowledgeable attorney, expert in the field, or by acquiring sufficient learning skills before performance is required. How would you define it in your own words?
If you're an attorney before you accept any work, in your mind you must know that you have acquired at least the basic legal skills necessary before you represent a client, and if you know that you lack certain skills necessary for the representation then you must know where to go to find them. For those reasons, you will be properly prepared to take on a client’s complaint. …show more content…
Ethics are moral beliefs and rules about right or wrong, so a lawyer is competent when he is right; on the other hand, a lawyer is not competent when he is wrong. Can you provide some hypothetical examples that would display a lack of competence on the part of an attorney and/or his/her legal team?
The result of a lawyer taking on a medical malpractice claim without having any experience with that type of claim is incompetent. What’s more whenever a lawyer is unable to produce a work product that reasonably meets a client’s expectations, they have demonstrated the lack of