Legal Opinion
Lyons v. Nutt
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 7, 2002PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpina, J.
On-July 31, 1998, Damon Lyons filed a complaint alleging legal malpractice against five partners and a former associate of the law firm Ropes & Gray. Acting on the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, a judge in the Superior Court concluded that the complaint should have been filed by October, 1991, and therefore was barred by the three-year statute of limitations applicable to legal malpractice cases, G. L. c. 260, *245§ 4. In his appeal, Lyons argues that the “continuing representation” doctrine should have been applied to toll the running of the statute. We granted his application for…
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