As a general rule, a person is not eligible to be compensated for emotional distress caused by an attorney’s malpractice. This is because legal malpractice is seen as an injury to a person’s rights that causes him or her to suffer some form of financial harm, as opposed to a type of personal injury. In rare cases, a client can recover damages for emotional distress if he or she can demonstrate that there were some extreme or egregious circumstances that caused the client to suffer emotional distress unconnected to his or her financial loss.