Saffer v. Willoughby

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a successful claimant in a legal malpractice action is entitled to reasonable expenses and attorneys’ fees as consequential damages.
• permitting counsel-fee award as element of consequential damages suffered by former client in attorney-malpractice setting
• allowing as permissible consequential damages the recovery of attorneys’ fees incurred in the prosecution of an attorney malpractice ease
• permitting counsel-fee award as element of consequential damages suffered by former client in attorney-malpractice setting
• addressing whether lawyer facing malpractice claim should be precluded from recovering any fee that was proximately related to alleged negligence, and holding that “[ojrdinarily, an attorney may not collect attorney fees for services negligently performed.”
• a negligent attorney is responsible for the reasonable legal expenses and attorney fees incurred by a former client who is successful in prosecuting a legal malpractice action

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