Cosgrove v. Grimes

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the legal-malpractice measure of damages is the amount that would have been recovered and collected if the underlying suit had been prosecuted properly
• explaining that a malpractice “instruction to the jury should clearly set out the standard for negligence in terms which encompass the attorney’s reasonableness in choosing one course of action over another”
• stating that, in Texas, legal malpractice is based on negligence, that “[a] lawyer in Texas is held to the standard of care which would be exercised by a reasonably prudent attorney[,]” and that “[t]he standard is an objective exercise of professional judgment . . . .”
• although damages issues defectively submitted, defendant \failed to object to them by distinctly pointing out any error\
• “The standard is an objective exercise of professional judgment, not the subjective belief that his acts are in good faith.”
• Although damages issues defectively submitted, defendant \failed to object to them by distinctly pointing out any error\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).