United States National Bank of Oregon v. Davies

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• applying two-year statute of limitations to legal mal- practice claim pursuant to ORS 12.110(1)
• simultaneous litigation may be “disastrous” to both attorney and client, since client will be taking polar positions in each suit permitting his impeachment in his defense of the underlying suit
• legal malpractice action governed by ORS 12.110(1) does not accrue under ORS 12.010 until the client becomes aware or should have become aware of the malpractice
• “[t]here is no doubt that [the client’s] necessity to defend [an action resulting from his lawyer’s bad advice] caused him damage more than two years prior to the commencement of the present action”
• “In many situations the closeness of the legal questions involved would make it impossible to ascertain until the ultimate determination of the case whether it was brought as the result of the attorney’s bad advice * * *.”
• \In many situations the closeness of the legal questions involved would make it impossible to ascertain until the ultimate determination of the case whether it was brought as the result of the attorney's bad advice * * *.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).