Kramer v. Yokely

Bernes, Judge.

In this legal malpractice action, plaintiff Edward E. Kramer appeals the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to defendants Daryl Von Yokely and Kenneth Muhammad, attorneys who represented Kramer in an unsuccessful federal case brought pursuant to 42 USC § 1983. Kramer contends that the trial court erred by (1) considering and relying upon the district court order entered in the federal case; (2) ruling as a matter of law that Kramer had failed to show that his attorneys’ alleged errors proximately caused the outcome in the federal case; and (3) ruling that the voluntary…