If your law firm makes several typos on your interrogatories and submits it to the other side, should you be concerned?

Lawyers should be meticulous and careful with all documents, but I do see a lot of typos and sloppy work generally in pleadings and discovery documents. That being said, I don't think typos in the interrogatory responses in and of themselves are a significant cause for concern. However, they may indicate lack of care and sloppiness generally. Monitor your lawyer's case handling and make sure s/he is paying attention and devoting sufficient time and energy to your case.

Answers to form interrogatories involve extensive details. Many of the questions call for very precise answers. The point of the answers is to help the propounding [asking] party "discover" [find out] important information of the parties involved in the subject incident. Clients and their attorneys must take great care to answer the questions with as much clarity and precision as possible. With that said, mistakes do happen. But, it should always remain a top priority for a law practice to produce thoroughly checked answers. Although clerical errors such as those described in the subject question, above, can prove a little annoying and at times genuinely frustrating to the attorney trying to discover the information, such errors will not be fatal to a case. If a client has concerns about the level of thoroughness exhibited by their attorney, they should always feel comfortable raising such concerns with their attorney. Feedback and client-participation can go a long way in helping the attorney-client relationship develop.

You have a right to be concerned, however this is an easy fix. Mistakes like typos on an address and mis-spellings of witnesses names should be fixed as soon as possible by filing Amended Interrogatory Answers. Grammatical edits, like called cold vs. cold called, should probably be left to the discretion of your attorney. You especially want this fixed before any depositions are taken, otherwise you or someone else will have to explain there are typos in the Interrogatory Answers, which is not optimal. Good luck! PS your attorney should not have any objections to making these corrections.