What is a lawyer’s duty to provide legal services to a client?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Golden (Re), 2018 LSBC 38 (CanLII):
A lawyer must provide legal services in a competent, timely, conscientious and diligent manner. The lawyer must perform all services undertaken on a client’s behalf to the standard of a competent lawyer. At the core of a lawyer’s duty is provision of “quality and appropriate legal services”: Law Society of BC v. Menkes, 2016 LSBC 24 at para. 11.
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