Scarborough v. Wright

OPINION

The plaintiff in this case is a disgruntled former client, and the defendant is her former attorney. The plaintiff appeals from the Superior Court’s grant of summary judgment in the defendant’s favor on statute of limitations grounds. We affirm on grounds that were alluded to but not entirely relied upon by the motion justice.

The substantive issues that lie in the background of this appeal are: (1) the applicability of one or more of our tolling statutes to the legal malpractice claim of a plaintiff who alleged that she was outside of the United States on some allegedly pertinent…