Shaw v. State, Department of Administration, Public Defender Agency

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• discussing, in the context of the breach of an employment contract, the uniqueness of Colorado’s willful and wanton rule
• noting that the standards are “similar”
• a convicted criminal must obtain post-conviction relief before pursuing a legal malpractice action against former defense counsel
• \The requirement of post-conviction relief promotes judicial economy because many issues litigated in the quest for post-conviction relief will be duplicated in the legal malpractice claim.\
• “The requirement of post-conviction relief promotes judicial economy because many issues litigated in the quest for post-conviction relief will be duplicated in the legal malpractice claim.”
• ‘‘[w]e hold that a convicted criminal defendant must obtain [postconviction] relief before pursuing an action for legal malpractice against his or her attorney’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).