Vinci v. Byers

Rather than let sleeping dogs lie, the plaintiff, an attorney, was intent on shining light not only on the alleged malfeasance of the attorney who handled his divorce, but on his own malfeasance as well. Some might say that no good can come from this strategy.2

On May 3, 2002, Paul J. Vinci filed a complaint alleging legal malpractice against Philip J. Byers, an attorney who represented Vinci in his divorce proceedings. Acting on Byers’s motion for summary judgment, a judge in the Superior Court *136concluded that Vinci’s cause of action was barred by the three-year statute of limitations, G. L.…