Poleskey v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• Expert testimony is generally required \in regard to professional standards of performance\ but is not required if the claimed breach is within the common knowledge of a layman jury
• “Generally, in order to survive summary judgment in a claim of legal malpractice, the plaintiff must provide expert testimony in order to demonstrate the breach of an attorney’s standard of care.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).