Chaffee v. Smith

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• barring transfer of unasserted legal malpractice action but reserving opinion on transferability of previously asserted actions
• disallowing execution on a claim for legal malpractice because it was not assignable
• “As a matter of public policy, we cannot permit enforcement of a legal malpractice action . . . which was never pursued by the original client.”
• generally prohibiting the assignment of unasserted legal malpractice claims on public policy grounds
• public policy prevents the transfer of 23 a previously unasserted claim for legal malpractice because “the 24 decision as to whether to bring a malpractice action against an attorney is one peculiarly vested in the client”.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).