Halvorsen v. Ferguson

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting a malpractice claim as a matter of law for an attorney’s failure to present or emphasize a certain theory of apportionment of community property in a dissolution case
• attorney not liable for errors in judgment or trial tactics where attorney's error involves uncertain, unsettled, or debatable proposition of law
• expert statements that they would have conducted litigation differently cannot as a matter of law support a legal negligence action
• attorney not liable for errors in judgment or trial tactics where attorney’s error involves uncertain, unsettled, or debatable proposition of law
• “In general, mere errors in judgment or in trial tactics do not subject an attorney to liability for legal malpractice. * * * This rule has found virtually universal acceptance when the error involves an uncertain, unsettled, or debatable proposition of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).