About Bennett Wasserman

Ben Wasserman is the founder of LegalMalpractice.com and serves as its Vice President and General Counsel. Over the past 30 years, he has litigated, arbitrated, mediated and served as consulting and testifying expert in more than 1,000 legal malpractice, legal ethics, law firm billing and lawyer advertising disputes. Litigators representing plaintiffs, as well as Professional Liability Insurance companies and their defense counsel regularly call upon Ben to serve as their strategic consultant and expert witness on liability and causatlon issues in legal malpractice litigation. As a law school faculty member since 1990, he has taught advanced law students and practicing lawyers the law of Lawyer Malpractice.

Separate and apart from his work at LegalMalpractice.com, Ben serves as Chairman of the Legal Malpractice Law department of a prominent law firm, where he prosecutes and defends substantial malpractice claims. Publicly traded and private corporations seek him out when they have been damaged by substandard legal representation or abusive law firm billing practices. He recently achieved for one of his hi-tech publicly traded corporate clients, one of the largest settlements against an international mega law firm. Ben is certified as a Diplomate by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys with specialization in Legal Professional Liability and is a Certified Civil Trial Attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court.