Assignment task:
Lawyer Liam is an experienced trust and estates attorney. Business has been a bit slow, so he decides to branch out and accept a slip-and-fall case on behalf of a client who fell outside a United States Postal Service station. Liam accepts the case one year and nine months from the date of the fall. He explains to the client that this is his first tort case. Liam does not realize that the Federal Tort Claims Act applies and that there is a jurisdictional requirement to exhaust administrative remedies prior to filing a lawsuit in court. He files his complaint in court on the eve of the two-year statute of limitations, but he tenders no administrative claim. The court dismisses the complaint with prejudice for failure to exhaust administrative remedies. Liam's client is now out of time to exhaust her administrative remedies. Has Liam violated Model Rule 1.1? Group of answer choices A. Yes. Liam was an experienced trust and estates lawyer but inexperienced in tort cases. He could only handle a slip-and-fall case if he worked with more experienced co-counsel. B. Yes. Liam had a responsibility to educate himself enough to handle the representation, which would have included researching