Kim v. Dickinson Wright, PLLC

By the Court, SILVER, J.:

This case allows us to clarify the interplay between Nevada's litigation malpractice tolling *1072rule and 28 U.S.C. § 1367(d) (2012), a federal tolling statute, on a legal malpractice claim. We first address the application of § 1367(d), which tolls the statute of limitations for a state-law claim joined with a federal claim under supplemental jurisdiction while the state-law claim is pending in federal court, and for at least 30 days after the state-law claim's dismissal from federal court. We clarify that § 1367(d) distinguishes between an "action" and a "claim," and…