Legal Opinion
Cherry v. Williams
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided April 17, 2000No. M1997-00216-COA-R3-CVPublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · KochKoch, J.
CANTRELL, J. and BUSSART, J. joined.
This appeal involves a dispute between a client and his two lawyers regarding their recommendations against accepting a plaintiffs settlement offer in a chancery court proceeding. After the chancellor and this court awarded his adversary damages far in excess of the settlement offers, the client filed a legal malpractice action against his lawyers in the Circuit Court for Davidson County. The two lawyers moved to dismiss the complaint based on the one-year statute of limitations, and the trial court, treating the motion as one for summary judgment,…
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