Kiley v. Jennings, Strouss & Salmon

How courts have described this case

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• noting that ascertainable, not speculative or contingent, damages are required before a claim for legal malpractice accrues
• finding no exception if the minor or individual 10 is appointed a guardian or conservator
• such assignments would negate attorney’s fiduciary and ethical duty to client because assignee is not client
• whether parties were of unsound mind, which would have tolled statute of limitations, was factual question for jury
• “[A] cause of action for legal malpractice cannot be assigned.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).