Legal Opinion
Evans v. Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro
California Court of Appeal
Decided July 14, 1998No. A078959PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
POCHE, Acting P. J.
Subdivision (a) of Civil Code section 1714.10 1 directs that “No cause of action against an attorney for a civil conspiracy” shall be filed until the trial court has made an evidence-based determination that “the party seeking to file the pleading has established that there is a reasonable probability that the party will prevail . . . .” The statute’s subdivision (c) provides that it “shall not apply” to situations where the attorney has an independent legal duty to the pleader or has violated a legal duty for the attorney’s financial gain.
Before us is the appeal of…
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