Hawaii Supreme Court· 12/11/1973

Higa v. Mirikitani

Citations

517 P.2d 1
55 Haw. 167
1973 Haw. LEXIS 159

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holding that the statute of limitations applicable to contract claims, HRS § 657-1(1), governs legal malpractice claims
holding that the six-year statute of limitations for claims sounding in contract applied to legal malpractice, rather than the two-year statute of limitations for claims sounding in tort
commenting that “virtually all claims for legal malpractice [concern] a non-physical injury to an intangible interest of the plaintiff’
commenting that \virtually all claims for legal malpractice [concern] a non-physical injury to an intangible interest of the plaintiff\
commenting that “virtually all claims for legal malpractice [concern] a non-physical injury to an intangible interest of the plaintiff’
applying the six-year limitations provision to a claim for legal malpractice that \generally arises out of a contractual relationship between the parties\

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Judges: Richardson, Marumoto, Abe, Levinson, Kobayashi

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