Thomas v. Pryor

OPINION

OVARD, Justice.

In this legal malpractice case, the trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendant, attorney Will Pryor. In four points of error, plaintiff Pauline Thomas appeals. The pivotal issue is whether we accept Thomas’s invitation to change existing Texas law prohibiting a beneficiary named in a will from bringing a suit for professional malpractice against an attorney who prepared the will. We decline the invitation and affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Attorney Will Pryor, through a pro bono legal aid program, prepared a will for Edna Bush. The will named…