Coleman v. Gurwin

How courts have described this case

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• noting that one of the elements in a legal malpractice claim is “the fact and extent of the injury alleged”
• observing “that a clear and unambiguous statute leaves no room for judicial construction or inteipretation”
• an attorney owes a “duty to use and exercise reasonable skill, care, discretion and judgment”
• \[T]his `suit within a suit' concept has vitality only in a limited number of situations.... This is so because the purpose of the `suit-within-a-suit requirement is to insure that the damages claimed to result from the attorney's negligence are more than mere speculation'\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).