Stone v. Satriana

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that litigation is \uncertain and costly\ and holding that a legal malpractice plaintiff need not appeal the underlying case to win full damages against the defendant attorneys
• noting that a nonparty designation is “improper when the moving defendant fails to establish a prima facie case that the potential nonparty breached a legal duty to the plaintiff”
• finding designation of nonparty at fault improper because the defendants failed to allege a cognizable legal malpractice claim
• allowing for the possibility that a malpractice defendant's interests could be inadequately represented by a failure to appeal because \[al failure to appeal can never be a failure to mitigate damages caused by malpractice at trial\
• “[A]ttorneys do not generally owe a legal duty to their client’s adversary . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).