Jernigan v. Giard

How courts have described this case

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• stating general principle that “an attorney defending a malpractice action may not rely on the consequences of his own negligence to bar recovery against him”
• if defendant attorney acted for plaintiff in underlying action, former client must prove that better result would have been obtained absent attorney's negligence
• if defendant attorney acted for plaintiff in underlying action, former client must prove that better result would have been obtained absent attorney’s negligence
• insurance claim wherein defendant argued by analogy to legal malpractice actions regarding the burden of proof
• \[a]n attorney defending a malpractice action may not rely on the consequences of his own negligence to bar recovery against him\
• \former clients suffer a loss due to an attorney's negligence only if that negligence is shown to have made a difference to the client\ (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).