Szurovy v. Olderman

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• claims of damages too speculative where no evidence of former husband’s assets
• Because the plaintiff failed to show that her attorney could have negotiated a better agreement, she failed to establish damages and proximate cause. Therefore, as a matter of law, her claims of damage were speculative.
• plaintiff could not show that, but for her counsel's actions, she could have negotiated a favorable alimony provision in a settlement agreement where there was no evidence of her former husband's financial status, income, or assets
• defendant in legal malpractice case was entitled to summary judgment where plaintiff failed to point to evidence that but for counsel’s errors she could have negotiated a better settlement or would have obtained better results at trial
• summary judgment for attorney was proper because client failed to establish damages and proximate cause; client failed to show that but for attorney’s error she could have negotiated a better agreement or would have obtained better results in a trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).