Wachovia Bank, N.A. v. Ferretti

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• holding that legal malpractice claims in Pennsylvania sound in both tort and contract law
• holding that legal malpractice claims in Pennsylvania sound in both tort and contract law
• recognizing that, in some jurisdictions, statute of limitations on malpractice claim accrues at time of damage, such as at time when judgment is entered in underlying action, but that this is not law in Pennsylvania
• stating that two-year statute of limitations period applies to legal malpractice claim sounding in negligence
• stating that “an action for legal malpractice may be brought in either contract or tort.” (citation and brackets omitted)
• stating that “it is undisputed that the two-year limitations period applies to the negligence claim”

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