Lucey v. Law Offices of Pretzel & Stouffer, Chartered

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff did not incur any damages directly attributable to her attorney's neglect
• rejecting the assertion that “subsequently incurred attorney fees will, in every case, automatically give rise to a cause of action for legal malpractice against former counsel”
• Incurring additional attorney fees may trigger the running of the statute of limitations if the fees are directly attributable to former counsel’s neglect.
• rejecting the assertion that “subsequently incurred attorney fees will, in every case, automatically give rise to a cause of action for legal malpractice against former counsel”
• actual damages are essential element in legal malpractice claim and are “entirely speculative” until judgment entered against former client or he is forced to settle
• “[w]hen uncertainty exists as to the very fact of damages, as opposed to the amount of damages, damages are speculative”

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