McGuire v. Fitzsimmons

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an attorney’s failure to file suit within the statute of limitations did not make the county where the action would have been filed the locus of the malpractice action
• applying venue analysis of Wetzel County Savings & Loan to legal malpractice action
• applying venue analysis of Wetzel County Savings & Loan to legal malpractice action
• “In a legal malpractice action, there are two suits: the malpractice against the lawyer and the underlying suit for which the client originally sought legal services, which may be considered a ‘suit within a suit.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).