Knight v. Furlow

FERREN, Associate Judge:

Appellant sued his lawyer too late, according to the trial court. He now contends the three-year statute of limitations for legal malpractice in the drafting of a will does not begin to run until resolution of an appeal sustaining the trial court’s invalidation of the will. He does not dispute that he knew of the alleged malpractice near the time of the trial court’s ruling, almost four years before he sued his lawyer. But he asserts that damages were uncertain, and thus the malpractice claim was not ripe, because the judgment had been stayed pending appeal. Applying…