Pelletier v. Chouinard

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• holding that claimant had malpractice claim once he incurred attorneys fees to ameliorate an error
• noting, however, that actual damages is an element of legal malpractice claim
• legal malpractice claim barred by statute of limitations where cause of action accrued when client suffered appreciable harm by expending additional attorney’s fees and expenses to resolve attorney’s error
• legal expenses incurred to ameliorate harm caused by negligent attorney is appreciable harm
• legal expenses incurred to ameliorate harm cause by negligent attorney is appreciable harm
• finding attorneys fees constitute appreciable harm

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).