Joel Erik Thompson, Ltd. v. Holder

OPINION

FIDEL, Presiding Judge.

¶ 1 When legal malpractice occurs in the course of litigation, the malpractice claim does not accrue, and the statute of limitations does not start to run, until the appellate process in the underlying litigation is “completed or is waived by a failure to appeal.” Amfac Distribution Corp. v. Miller, 138 Ariz. 152, 154, 673 P.2d 792, 794 (1983). But when is the appellate process completed in an appeal finally resolved by the court of appeals without a petition for supreme court review? Is it completed when the deadline passes for filing a petition for review, or…