At The Bar with The Chandlers

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Twenty-seven years inside the legal system taught me one thing: the problems that destroy careers and fracture families almost never have to happen. I’m Douglas Chandler. I’m the founder of Chandler Law in Alpharetta, Georgia. I got into this work because I spent the first half of my career suing lawyers for malpractice and litigating professional liability cases. What I kept finding, over and over, was that the thing that blew the whole situation up was almost always preventable. A cleaner document. A harder conversation. A few extra steps nobody took. Then those same lawyers (the ones I’d been suing) started coming back to hire me to defend them. Against malpractice claims. Against disciplinary complaints. Against ethics investigations. And I took that seriously, because they’d seen how I think.But I also know this from the other side. I’ve hired estate planning attorneys for my own family. Twice. And both times, I walked out with a binder, a handshake, and almost no confidence