Here is a short reprint of a California case where the case was too old before the attorneys even saw it for the first time. “The plaintiff in a toxic mold lawsuit had no viable malpractice claim against her lawyers over their settlement of her case, since her cause of action was time-barred before she consulted them, the Third District Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.
The court affirmed Sacramento Superior Court Judge Loren E. McMaster’s order dismissing a legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit against Sacramento attorneys Morton L. Friedman and C. Brooks Cutter.” Full article