Gallagher v. Bougioukas

Fishman, Kenneth J., J.

INTRODUCTION

This matter comes before this Court on the defendant William J. Bougioukas, Esquire’s, motion for reconsideration of this Court’s Order, dated May 2, 2005, denying the defendant’s motion for summary judgment. The defendant is an attorney licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The plaintiff, Robert Gallagher, is a former client, who alleges that the defendant committed malpractice first by filing the defendant’s underlying civil rights action in the wrong court, and subsequently by failing to re-file certain claims in the proper court…