Trustees of Ohio Carpenters' Pension Fund v. U.S. Bank National Ass'n

Colleen Conway Cooney, Judge.

{¶ 1} Plaintiff-appellant, Trustees of the Ohio Carpenters’ Pension Fund (“the Fund”), appeals the trial court’s granting summary judgment to defendantappellee, Baker & Hostetler, L.L.P. (“Baker”) regarding the Fund’s legal-malpractice claim and denying the Fund the opportunity to amend its complaint. Finding no merit to the appeal, we affirm.

{¶ 2} The instant case involves alleged malpractice while Baker represented the Fund in connection with the LaCentre development project. During the relevant time, the Fund lent millions of dollars to another of Baker’s…