Glamm v. Allen

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Shea, J.), entered February 5, 1981 in Montgomery County, which denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment and granted plaintiff’s cross motion to dismiss defendant’s first affirmative defense of the Statute of Limitations. Two issues are to be resolved on this appeal. First, if an attorney is chargeable with a negligent act or omission during the course of a “continuous representation” of a client in a particular legal matter and the attorney dies during that period, when does the cause of action accrue, and second, what effect,…