Williams v. CDY Development Corp.

Bln this legal malpractice action, the defendant attorney prepared a commercial lease. Plaintiff did not direct the attorney’s work on the lease but relied upon a co-tenant who executed the lease with her. When a dispute arose between the plaintiff and the landlord over the term for the lease and its optional • extension, plaintiff sued the landlord and the attorney in these consolidated actions. The attorney pled the peremptory exception of peremption. Following trial of the exception, the trial court ruled that plaintiff was aware of the disputed optional term for the lease for over one…