Gurski v. Rosenblum and Filan, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• characterizing legal malpractice claim as hybrid contract and tort action, and prohibiting assignment thereof to adversary in same litigation that gave rise to malpractice claim
• noting that many of the courts that do not have a per se rule barring assignments have recognized the public policy concerns with these assignments, but merely did not have occasion to apply those concerns in their specific cases
• rejecting a per se rule precluding the voluntary assignment of legal malpractice claims
• ‘‘[w]e have taken a contrary position . . . with respect to whether a tort claim can be assigned, at least when the claim is based on personal injury’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).