Nettleton v. Stogsdill

How courts have described this case

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• “A plaintiff in a legal malpractice case may recover attorney fees when the fees constitute an ordinary loss resulting from the attorney’s negligence.”
• legal malpractice plaintiff must “demonstrate she would not have incurred the fees in the absence of the defendant’s negligence”
• “A successful legal malpractice claim places the plaintiff in the same position that she would have occupied but for the attorney’s negligence”
• even if an attorney is proven negligent, “a plaintiff cannot recover for legal malpractice unless he also proves that the attorney’s negligence proximately caused her damages.”
• if the outcome in the underlying action was as or more favorable to the malpractice plaintiff then he could have achieved if the malpractice defendant had not been negligent, then the plaintiff cannot be said to have been injured in the manner he alleged and so is not entitled to any damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).