California Aviation, Inc. v. Leeds

Opinion

ORTEGA, J.

Plaintiff California Aviation, Inc. (CAI) appeals from the judgment dismissing its case entered following the trial court’s grant of defendant Arthur Leeds’s (Leeds) summary judgment motion. CAI filed a chapter 11 bankruptcy petition, and later sued Leeds, an attorney, for malpractice allegedly arising from his representation of CAI in an earlier case. Leeds successfully argued that the statute of limitations barred CAI’s claim. We conclude the trial court erred in applying the one-year legal malpractice state limitations statute (Code Civ. Proc., § 340.6, subd. (a)) rather…