Legal Opinion

Pamela Sue Hook v. Tito Trevino, Individually, and Tito Trevino D/B/A Trevino Law Offices

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided November 8, 2013No. 12–0283PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WATERMAN, Justice.

This legal malpractice action presents three questions of first impression. In Hook v. Lippolt, we held the defendants in plaintiff Pamela Hook’s personal injury action — the State of Iowa and a volunteer driver for the Iowa Department of Human Services — were entitled to summary judgment under the statute of limitations and volunteer-immunity provisions of the Iowa Tort Claims Act, respectively. 755 N.W.2d 514, 517 (Iowa 2008). Hook then brought this malpractice action against her attorney in that case, Tito Trevino, who appeals from the judgment on the jury verdict in her…

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