The Wall Street Journal reports this:

"What do you call a surgeon who wears a suit? A defendant. It’s an old joke, but at any given moment in the U.S., approximately 60,000 medical malpractice suits are being tried, many involving multiple physician-defendants. That’s roughly 10% of the physician population. And once a physician experiences the legal system, it can scar him permanently"

This is manifestly not true for lawyers.  By our estimation there are 100,000 lawyers in New York State.  There are certainly not 10,000 legal malpractice lawsuits going on at any time, and perhaps not even sequentially.