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Williams v. Joynes

FILED status graphic: Williams v. Joynes. 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…
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