Metcalfe v. Waters

How courts have described this case

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• holding that compensatory and punitive damages are available in a legal malpractice action
• recognizing that, in order to prove causation in a legal malpractice claim, plaintiff must show that he more probably than not would have prevailed in his underlying case, essentially proving a “case within a case”
• holding attorney’s “repeated transgressions and callous disregard” for clients supported punitive damages in attorney malpractice case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).