Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1514

The lawyer’s obligation toward his client. Where the agency is remunerated. Its nature. An obligation to perform work in which he must exercise the care exercised by an ordinary person, which, in the legal profession, consists of exerting the utmost effort in defending his client’s rights to the extent required by the needs of the action, confronting opponents with legal evidence, and complying with procedural time limits, especially those whose omission results in a stay or lapse of the action or its being deemed never to have existed.