Once an attorney undertakes the representation of a client, i t becomes his obligation to exercise proper care to safeguard the client's interest. When a lawyer has accepted employment in a matter with which he is unfamiliar, this obligation entails the study necessary to make him competent in the matter. The Disciplinary Rules of the American Bar Association state that "a lawyer shall not hand...

In his recent article, “Liability Rules When Injurers as Well as Victims Suffer Losses,“’ Avon Leong examines the question whether the standard liability rules-pure negligence, negligence with contributory negligence, pure strict liability and strict liability with contributory negligence-can be used to induce efficient care-taking by individuals in those circumstances where both injurers’ and ...