Gabriel v. Fernando

How courts have described this case

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• affirming District Court’s involuntary dismissal of a legal malpractice action where the plaintiff did not present expert testimony to establish the relevant standard of care
• finding an exception to the expert requirement “where the matter under investigation is so simple, and the lack of skill so obvious, as to be within the range of the ordinary experience and comprehension of even non-professional persons”
• “The expert witness in professional malpractice is necessary to ... assist the jury in its determination of defendant’s conformity to the relevant standard [of care].”
• plaintiff in malpractice case must establish a standard of care in profession in order to show a breach
• adopting Pennsylvania’s requirement for expert testimony in legal malpractice actions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).