MacAwber Engineering, Inc. v. Robson & Miller Morton S. Robson Kenneth N. Miller, Abdo & Abdo, P.A. Steven R. Hedges

BEAM, Circuit Judge.

Macawber Engineering, Inc. (“Macawber”) appeals a district court order granting summary judgment in favor of Abdo & Abdo, P.A. (“Abdo”) and Steven R. Hedges, a member of the firm. Macawber contends that Abdo and Hedges committed legal malpractice while acting as Macawber’s local defense counsel. Specifically, Macawber alleges that as a result of local counsel’s negligence, Ma-cawber failed to respond to certain requests for admissions and incurred a $650,000 judgment. Because there is no evidence that local counsel had a duty to respond to the requests for admissions, we…