Cullers v. Britton

How courts have described this case

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

• citing, inter alia , McCarthy , 250 Ill. App. 3d 166
• “A lawyer cannot be held liable for not having held out for a settlement that could not have been achieved in any event”
• “The issue in the second case is the attorney’s negligence, which, ordinarily, was neither raised nor resolved in the action that was settled.”
• \A lawyer cannot be held liable for not having held out for a settlement that could not have been achieved in any event\
• “A lawyer cannot be. held liable for not having held out for a settlement that could not have been achieved in any event.”
• attorney malpractice action was not barred on the grounds of nonmutual collateral estoppel because it is unjust to preclude a malpractice action when the clients may have been misinformed as to the actual worth of their case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).