Massachusetts Electric Co. v. Fletcher, Tilton & Whipple, P.C.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “cause of action accrues when some harm has occurred even though the full extent and nature of that harm has not been and cannot be established immediately”
• cause of action for legal malpractice accrued when client was forced to incur legal expenses in action based in part on alleged negligent conduct of attorney
• “[T]he electric companies knew immediately of the alleged negligence of the defendant attorneys, but it was not then clear that the alleged negligence had caused or would cause the companies any appreciable harm.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).