Conklin v. Weisman

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

O’HERN, J.

The primary issue in this legal malpractice action is whether plaintiffs are entitled to a new trial against their lawyer and his law firm based on the trial court’s charge to the jury regarding proximate cause. In its original form, that charge would, in essence, have required defendants’ negligence to have been the sole cause of the harm to the client for the attorneys to be held liable. The trial of the matter had resulted in a jury verdict of no cause for action against the defendants on the plaintiffs’ major claim. Although differing as…