Fine & Block v. Evans

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

This is a legal malpractice case predicated upon the defendant attorneys’ negligence on the appellate level, specifically an unexcused delay in obtaining the filing of a transcript which resulted in the dismissal of their client’s appeal from an adverse result in the trial court. Defendants, Fine & Block, a law partnership, and A. J. Block and Gary Goldsmith, individually as members of the law firm of Fine & Block, admitted that their failure to obtain an extension of the time for filing a transcript of the trial in the underlying case was not in accordance with the…