M.A. v. Brabender

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “it is clear that, in criminal legal malpractice actions, the statute of limitations begins to run on the date of sentencing, or not later than the termination date of the attorney/client relationship.”
• noting that, “[b]y contrast, in civil legal malpractice actions, the statute of limitations begins to run either at the - 15 - J-S39032-20 time the harm is suffered or alternatively at the time the alleged malpractice is discovered.”
• “Under Bailey, … it is clear that, in criminal legal malpractice actions, the statute of limitations begins to run on the date of sentencing, or no later than the termination date of the attorney/client relationship.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).