Budd v. Nixen

How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that \[o]rdinarily the client has already suffered damage when he discovers his attorney's negligence\
• reasoning that “[ojrdinarily the client has already suffered damage when he discovers his attorney’s negligence”
• to recover in malpractice against an accountant, a plaintiff must prove duty, breach, factual causation, proximate causation, and damages
• plaintiff-client compelled to “ ‘incur and pay attorney’s fees and legal costs and expenditures’ ” would sustain sufficient injury to run statute of limitations for legal malpractice claim
• “the infliction of the damage will alert the client to the attorney’s negligence and thus the statute of limitations will then begin to run on any malpractice action”
• “[T]he cause of action in tort does not accrue until the client both sustains damage, and discovers, or should discover, his cause of action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).