Steeves v. Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, P.C.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
1Opinion of the Court
CLIFFORD, Justice.
[¶ 1] Joan Steeves appeals from a summary judgment entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Mills, J.) in favor of Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, P.C., and two of the firm’s attorneys, in Steeves’s legal malpractice action. Steeves contends that the court erred in entering a summary judgment based on the court’s con- elusion that her damages were conjectural. 2 Although Steeves has generated material issues of fact regarding an alleged breach of a professional duty owed to her, we affirm the summary judgment because Steeves has failed to show more than the mere…
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