CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 601
Legal Malpractice—Causation
To recover damages from [name of defendant], [name of plaintiff] must
prove that [he/she/ nonbinary pronoun/it] would have obtained a better
result if [name of defendant] had acted as a reasonably careful attorney.
[Name of plaintiff] was not harmed by [name of defendant]’s conduct if the
same harm would have occurred anyway without that conduct.
New September 2003; Revised June 2015, May 2020, December 2022
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2025
- Content hash
df0c291068484dd45a9bc4a66e8fa0956d2670e356bede8c498f5d3a484a6e3c
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