People need professional help in resolving disputes and in keeping themselves healthy. From ancient times, people have studied and practiced and fashioned themselves into professionals who help people. Sadly, it is not a bump-free road that both have travelled.

As ancient as are the professions of medicine and law, so are the disappointments in results and how the professions are practiced. Medical malpractice and legal malpractice are concepts that came into being very shortly after medicine and law were born.