McDow v. Dixon

How courts have described this case

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• measure of client's damages is the amount of the judgment which would have been collectible
• judgment against legal malpractice defendant reduced to amount of underlying tortfeasor’s insurance coverage where plaintiff failed to introduce business records, financial statements, or assets to prove collectibility over and above insurance
• “A client suing his attorney for malpractice not only must prove that his claim was valid and would have resulted in a judgment in his favor, but also that said judgment would have been collectible in some amount, for therein lies the measure of his damages.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).