Winter 2016 SBAND Gavel | Page 16

PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY: Policy Applications and Provisions BY RON McLEAN In 2009, Lin-Manuel Miranda was invited to the White House Evening of Poetry and Spoken Word. At the event, Miranda announced he was writing a hip-hop musical about Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury. The crowd politely laughed at the goofiness of the idea. the elements of a legal malpractice action are: the existence of an attorney-client relationship, a duty by the attorney to the client, a breach of that duty by H]ܛ