Is there any case law where an attorney has been found negligent or negligent in their conduct?

In Daley v. County of Butte (1964) 227 Cal.App.2d 380, the attorney failed to appear at necessary hearings, serve process, seek extensions of time, or adequately communicate with the client or the court. Rather than taking action in the case, the attorney was guilty of "holding the substitution of attorneys for more than five months while his client's cause ripened for disaster" (id. at p. 392); and "by his refusal to get on with the lawsuit or get out of it, [the attorney] inflicted severe damage on his client's case." (Ibid.) Such attorney neglect amounted to "positive misconduct" that caused the

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