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Williams v. Joynes
No. 080751Supreme Court of Virginia
080751 Williams v. Joynes 06/04/2009 In a legal malpractice action alleging failure timely to file a Virginia personal injury action, the circuit court erred in granting summary judgment for the defendant atto…
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080751 Williams v. Joynes 06/04/2009 In a legal malpractice action alleging failure timely to file a Virginia personal injury act…
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080751 Williams v. Joynes 06/04/2009 In a legal malpractice action alleging failure timely to file a Virginia personal injury action, the circuit court erred in granting summary judgment for the defendant attorneys based on the view that the plaintiff's failure to file a similar action in a foreign jurisdiction with a longer statute of limitations was a superseding event, which severed the link of proximate causation between the defendants' negligence and plaintiff's loss of his personal injury claim. Since the attorneys' conduct set in motion the need for plaintiff to consider filing a lawsuit elsewhere, as a matter of law the argument that his failure to file a lawsuit in another jurisdic…
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