Kramer v. Dirksen

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an acquittal on retrial would be evidence for a factfinder to consider in malpractice trial against criminal attorney
• holding that a plaintiff must prove his own innocence before he may recover for his criminal defense attorney’s malpractice
• “a plaintiff must prove his innocence before he may recover for his criminal defense attorney’s malpractice”
• elements of legal malpractice claim include the existence of an attorney-client relationship establishing a duty on the part of the attorney

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).