Exclusively designed for small law firms and solo attorneys

Lawyers' professional liability insurance

Giving Lawyers Peace of Mind

Now more than ever, the financial stability of the company you select is critical. A company's rating reflects its ability to pay potential claims as promised in your policy. Our strong financials and extensive experience with legal liability insurance underscore our commitment to being there when you need us.

Lawyers' Malpractice Insurance with Distinctive Coverage

LawyerCare policy coverage includes*

You deserve coverage that goes beyond the ordinary. LawyerCare® delivers with enhanced coverage and features:

 

CyberCare® Coverage — providing you with $25,000/$25,000 of cyber risk protection uniquely designed for the information threats law firms face

Insured’s Reimbursement of $5,000/$10,000 — compensating your time spent (at our request) at a trial, hearing, or arbitration proceeding
Consent to Settle — offering you consent to settle and no “hammer clause”
Claims Expense Outside the Limit of Liability & First Dollar Defense Coverage — options available to qualifying firms
Subpoena Assistance — offering you up to $10,000/$20,000 in coverage if subpoenaed
Attorney Discipline Defense Coverage — offering you immediate assistance of $25,000/$30,000 in addition to the policy limits
Cyber Coverage — CyberCare coverage with an increased limit of $250K is available
Extended Reporting Period Available at No Additional Premium — for retiring attorneys (who have been insured with LawyerCare for a minimum of three consecutive years) OR in the event of death or disability
Automatic 60-day Reporting Period — allowing you additional time to report a claim that occurred during the policy period
Individual Extended Reporting Period Available For Purchase — providing departing attorneys with peace of mind

*Coverages may vary slightly by state due to regulatory restrictions. Refer to the LawyerCare policy form approved in your state for details.

 

Risk Management Services for Lawyers

Get access to new and improved resources to help you protect your law practice.

LawyerCare utilizes Attorneys Risk Management (ARM) at Barron & Newburger, P.C. to provide risk management and loss prevention services for every policyholder. With rapid response, high-quality advice, current forms and materials, informative ethics CLEs, and informative loss-prevention publications, you have access to tools to help keep your practice as safe as you can make it.

As part of your benefits, each insured lawyer is entitled to receive:

  • Up to four (4) hours of confidential advice from experienced risk management counsel
  • Up to five (5) hours of ethics CLEs.
For more information and to take advantage of this policy benefit, visit the ARM website.

What do you have access to as a LawyerCare policyholder?

Help When You Need It

Consult in real time with senior risk management attorneys to address difficult ethics and liability issues, including withdrawal, error communication, conflicts, fee disputes, and more.

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Consultations Protected by Privilege

Unlike most other risk management programs, you'll speak with your lawyer, not with your insurance company. Your conversations are protected by attorney-client privilege. Your insurance company will not know that you've sought advice.

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Practice Tools and
Templates

Carefully curated and growing library of forms, checklists, links, articles, and other resources that will help protect you and your firm from ever-present and ever-increasing risk.

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Ethics CLEs

Every lawyer needs ethics CLEs, and we deliver five (5) hours for each insured lawyer through our partner SproutEd. You'll be taught by the same lawyers that provide loss prevention advice and counselling.

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Do-It-Yourself Tools

Resources to educate yourself and your firm about basic risk management principles, including multiple forms so that you can assess your own policies and risk profile.

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State Resources

Links to every state's Rules of Professional Conduct, Ethics Opinions, and the state bar risk management assistance program, if there is one. Because a second opinion never hurts.

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Claims

Our seasoned claims professionals stand ready to serve you.

Please call us immediately at 855.214.1295 or email LawyerCareclaimreporting@medmarc.com when:

  • You experience an incident you think could lead to a claim;
  • You become aware of a claim or potential claim;
  • A lawyer covered on your policy receives notice of a disciplinary investigation or grievance; or
  • A lawyer covered on your policy receives a subpoena for documents or a request for deposition involving professional services.

If faced with a claim, we work with you to quickly and accurately establish the facts surrounding any issue, no matter how large or small.

You can also contact your LawyerCare® claims professional for information when dealing with difficult clients.

Report a claim

To report a claim, potential claim, notice of a disciplinary investigation, or grievance, or to discuss difficult client issues, call 855.214.1295 to speak with a LawyerCare® claims professional.

Financial Strength

LawyerCare is underwritten by ALPS Insurance, which is rated “A” (Excellent) by A.M. Best.